Character Quote by Anita Desai

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

Sometimes you meet characters at certain points in your life and have a connection with them.

— Jessie Buckley

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

— Norman Rush

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

— Vanna Bonta

Character is the plot in many ways

— Junot Diaz

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story…

— Aaron Ehasz

When it comes to a character, I make sure that it adds to the plot.

— Tamannaah

The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand…

— Jaume Cabre

When we approach characters, we don't have their full story in mind right off the bat. Through the writing process we raise questions about…

— Anna Boden

Before I ever begin writing a new story, I have to sketch my characters out on paper. It's part of my process of understanding…

— Marie Lu

You have to find something you relate to in every character.

— Aya Cash

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again,…

— Joel Coen