Quotes on Interesting Characters

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.