Dick Bruna Quotes

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

The reason you can never go home again isn't necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same.

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

I think the most interesting thing about any story is how people change. That's usually a struggle, because change is pretty much an uncomfortable thing.

I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either.

I was so bad. Out of control. So glad I turned out to be a nice guy.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep growing. Before you know it, you look back and think, "What was that?"

It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Education is... doing anything that changes you.

I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn.

To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.

I like playing... I don't know. I think that's what was really exciting about playing Knives, too, from the beginning was that you get to kind of do both of that. She's almost like two different people, but that's what's cool about it, because I get to show her growth and that's the thing that's really cool about Knives, you get to really see her grow up from being meek and innocent and naïve at the beginning to this powerful girl who is going for what she really believes in and what she really wants.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.

I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different.

It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.

Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.