The character must be shown in action. The novelist must never allow himself the luxury of preaching.Virginia Woolf
The loose structure of the character allows for more variety and complexity in relationships.Virginia Woolf
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness.Virginia Woolf
The daily task of unwinding the essence of a human character can never be rushed.Virginia Woolf
You cannot make a character out of words. You cannot stuff enough into a sentence to make a flesh and blood human being out of it.Virginia Woolf
Every single convention of Victorian literature was broken and transformed by a new, more authentic way of telling.Virginia Woolf
The character in fiction is only a shell enclosing broken fragments of reality, an echo of an echo.Virginia Woolf
The modern writer has no choice but to construct his novels out of such fragments and echoes, for only then can he recreate the complexity of human life.Virginia Woolf
In the hands of a skilled writer, the character in a novel will not only reveal a truth but embody it.Virginia Woolf
In order to understand a character in fiction, we must have access to his innermost thoughts and feelings.Virginia Woolf