“What an experiment will give, to put a writer in the dark, ask her to stretch a character of the human kind with no physical characteristics attached? Will this character emerge with no prejudice in kind or one of a new kind, an organism cultured in the dark to what light may not reflect? Humanity absorbed or rudely deflected?”
“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”
“Character, like film, develops in darkness.”
“Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are.”
“Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.”