Character Quote by Howard Hawks

I detest the word plot. I never, never think of plot. I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters; I'll tell…

— Stirling Silliphant

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

There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.

— Jim Thompson

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.

— Lauren Beukes

I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

— Patrick deWitt

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

“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people…

— Anne Lamott

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in…

— Jim Jarmusch

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

— Erica Jong

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence…

— Elizabeth George

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike…

— Leigh Brackett