Character Quote by Alice Mattison

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

— Edward Norton

Whenever we've approached a story, it's always started with the character, and the idea of some character struggling with some part of himself. That's…

— Anna Boden

The way people respond to struggles or express their feelings in difficult situations are very different. I like imagining how characters would react in…

— Lee Yoon-ki

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

— Lisa Unger

We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.

— Alice Mattison

In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real…

— Matthew Weiner

“Metaphors introduce symbolic elements that add layers of meaning and depth to how characters feel in any given situation.”

— Calvin Niles

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

— Lisa Unger

It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

— Eric Heiden

“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people…

— Anne Lamott

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot…

— Terry Pratchett

Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do.

— Sri Chinmoy