Character Quote by Henry Miller

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

— Jodi Picoult

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

— Margaret Bechard

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

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it...

— Erica Jong

We don't experience our lives as plots. If I asked you to tell me what your last week was like, you're not really gonna…

— Teju Cole

Don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

— Toni Collette

You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you…

— David Simon

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

— Brad Meltzer

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

— Grant Morrison

She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.

— Anonymous

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

— David Levithan

What drama is to me is life for her.

— Hira