Always Quote by Anna Boden

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

In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

“There can't be much development of action or theme in such stories, but at least there is some. By contrast, in the short short…

— Irving Howe

It's really, always, the story and the characters that come first, and the other things are kind of dealt with in time or, in…

— Pete Docter

I think that in general - well, at least it's true for me - you tend to put something of yourself into the story…

— Sam Lake

Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.

— Ben Edlund

It was always about the story rather than the character.

— Jean Dujardin

A lot of writers will take a character at the beginning of a story. And that character will stay the same all the way…

— Adrian Lester

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that…

— Francine Rivers

A story is built on characters and reasons.

— Steven Amsterdam

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler