Character Quote by Anonymous

If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway.

— William Campbell Gault

But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the…

— Elizabeth George

Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a…

— Ray Bradbury

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

— Ethan Canin

I do see myself as someone who has a lot of story ideas.

— Jill Abramson

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any…

— Lou Reed

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

— Brian Keene

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

— Chris Brogan

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

— Fay Weldon

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from…

— Anonymous

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets…

— Caroline B. Cooney