Attempting Quote by David Levithan

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

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

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

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

“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

Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.

— Tom Johnson

I write largely plot-driven stories.

— Ravi Subramanian

I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

— Patrick deWitt

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

— George Lucas

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are…

— Lauren Myracle

I don't think I do any formal research. Life is my research. I always begin with a character. I write a chapter about the…

— Patricia MacLachlan

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

— Michael Connelly