Believable Quote by Chuck Jones

“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people…

— Anne Lamott

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when…

— Judy Blume

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

— Lisa Unger

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

— Lisa Unger

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

— Steven Soderbergh

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of…

— Richard Linklater

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

— Keith Miller

Character is the plot in many ways

— Junot Diaz

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in…

— Jim Jarmusch

I detest the word plot. I never, never think of plot. I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters; I'll tell…

— Stirling Silliphant

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

— Michael Connelly

The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

— Gary Larson