Famous quotes containing the words potter, puppet, main and/or characters:
“I think if she lived in
A little shoe-house—
That little old woman was
Surely a mouse!”
—Beatrix Potter (1866–1943)
“The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)
“Aggression, the writer’s main source of energy.”
—Ted Solotaroff (b. 1928)
“I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)