Action Quote by Harper Lee

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

— Norman Rush

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

There are always dimensions, and the way they get expressed is through the writing and the actors and the director you get to work…

— Ben Mendelsohn

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

— Antonio Tabucchi

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

— Aristotle

What's important is how the character drives the narrative.

— Tridha Choudhury

plot is character in action.

— Maren Elwood

Character is the plot in many ways

— Junot Diaz

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

— Daniel Keys Moran

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

— Vanna Bonta

When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters…

— Mel Brooks

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

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro