Character Quote by Felicia Day

Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort…

— Chelsea Cain

I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I…

— Jeff Abbott

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

When we approach characters, we don't have their full story in mind right off the bat. Through the writing process we raise questions about…

— Anna Boden

You're living with these characters for years and years, you need to have a lock on who they are as people, what they like,…

— Aldis Hodge

The characters are complicated. The people you think are bad, may not be so bad, and the ones you think are good, may not…

— Neal Baer

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

I'm very opinionated, and when you're put in a position where you're getting the storylines that are not necessarily what's cranking at the back…

— Matthew Davis

There's a lot of storylines over the years where you feel like it's maybe meant to be more important than it ends up being,…

— Julie Plec

I think in telling a good story there has to be ups and downs with any character, and you can't just have everything go…

— Chris Sullivan

Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

I think main storylines are what always intrigued me, with those that were the relationships between the characters against whatever backdrop, whether it was…

— John Noble