Character Quote by Charles Baxter

My stories are character driven.

— Terry McMillan

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

A story is built on characters and reasons.

— Steven Amsterdam

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

— Miranda July

Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop the plan…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.

— Cary Fukunaga

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

In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.

— Steve Erickson

In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making unconventional decisions.

— Emily Giffin

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters…

— Paul Kane

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

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