H. G. Wells Quotes

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

I've studied human psychology my whole life.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

What interests me about life most is people, and the why of the world. That's what theatre looks at: it examines life, and gives it a cohesiveness that life doesn't have.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.

I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.

It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart.

I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of people's lives, exploring how a person thinks and feels.

Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences - you are who you are because of them, no matter if they're good or bad.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

I think you have to see the high highs and the low lows to get to the core of what makes us tick as people.

I'm someone who likes to explore the complexities in people.

No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.

People don't change just because you know more about them.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.