Am Quote by Andrea Hirata

I just want to tell stories that are meaningful and have inspiration to them; people can watch it and take away something or maybe…

— Dee Rees

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

— Nancy Kress

You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.

— Todd Lieberman

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know…

— Cassandra Clare

I create each character as an individual, coming from a certain place, sounding a certain way, having been introduced to things a certain way.

— Martin Landau

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

— Scarlett Thomas

In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.

— Marlon James

I would never make up a character who didn't exist or an event that didn't transpire. If you're a real writer, you have other…

— Koren Zailckas

“A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.”

— A.R. Voss

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the…

— Isabelle Huppert

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.

— Stephen King