Character Quote by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Download Open image “Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.” — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Involved Plot Stories
Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling. — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires. — Robert Gregory Browne Copy Share Image
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
“How beautiful a thing is youth Which flees us in every way. Whoever desires to be merry, let him; For tomorrow is never certain.… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
“To Trazada's surprise the Generalissimo laughed, a great subterranean rumbling that shook his gigantic frame like an earthquake. 'Remedios, mia pobre Remedios, they are… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
“When it was cooler, Trazada made a simple meal of sausage, cheese, and bread. She had schooled herself to wait dinner until hunger urged… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image