Character Quote by Jessica Stockholder

“There can't be much development of action or theme in such stories, but at least there is some. By contrast, in the short short…

— Irving Howe

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

— Nora Roberts

In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real…

— Flannery O'Connor

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told.…

— Paul Ricoeur

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

— Tridha Choudhury

I believe in characters that can be tangible, and that you can actually relate to.

— Demian Bichir

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

— George Lucas

Whenever we've approached a story, it's always started with the character, and the idea of some character struggling with some part of himself. That's…

— Anna Boden

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

Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by…

— William Kittredge

Character is plot, plot is character.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald