Characters Quote by Ashwin Sanghi

I like to write about characters who are conflicted.

— Jed Mercurio

The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to…

— Lynn Coady

Clearly, I'm drawn to characters with inner conflicts.

— Jacqueline Carey

Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect.

— Nancy Kress

Clearly, Im drawn to characters with inner conflicts.

— Jacqueline Carey

Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion,…

— Dana Spiotta

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go…

— Julie Kagawa

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

Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by nature, by…

— Chuck Wendig

There will always be conflict forever and how we deal with conflict is what can help define our character.

— Rick Owens

There starts to be an overlap between you and the character.

— Stephen Collins

I like conflict, drama's conflict and if you don't have that in the character it's really not a worthwhile role to play for me.

— Matt Dillon