Ahead of time Quote by David Selby

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

— Douglas A. Lawson

The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

— Zoe Kazan

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

— Danny Huston

I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what…

— JoBeth Williams

The ideas always have to be in service of the story. And that's what Scott and the writers did - they weren't trying to…

— Adam Frank

Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.

— Etgar Keret

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

— Vanna Bonta

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more…

— Dave Eggers

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

— Anita Desai

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

— Michael Scott

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