Character Quote by Douglas A. Lawson

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they…

— David Selby

I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm…

— Kim Edwards

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

— Joel Kinnaman

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

— Anita Desai

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

— Victor Garber

Every place is determined by the characters who are there.

— Robert Plant

My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them…

— Peter Hedges

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

— Tea Obreht

I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.

— Sara Zarr

The story always leads you where it's supposed to go.

— Courtney A. Kemp