Technique is of less interest than character and story.

I'll try to find a character or a story that is different from those I've done before.

— Shin Min-a

I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them…

— Isabel Allende

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit…

— Johnny Galecki

Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or…

— William Shatner

I've always kind of gravitated toward characters who are a bit distant from the narrator or the point-of-view characters, so that's kind of important…

— Noelle Stevenson

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

— Radha Mitchell

From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my characters, and…

— Tina St. John

“Never make someone else the main character in your own story.”

— J.M. Darhower

It is always character first and story second.

— Jeff Wachtel

“She's the main character in her story, just like I'm the main character in mine.”

— Marisa de los Santos

For Marvel, we've never looked at any of our characters in terms of gender, race, or religion. It truly is about, who is the…

— Jeph Loeb

Some actors just have a quality, a way of combining music and character and story, where everything just falls into place.

— John Tiffany

I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of…

— Alexandra Sokoloff

Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and a more…

— Steve Erickson

My life is like a Telephone Directory, Too many character's but no story

— Anonymous