Character Quote by Margaret Bechard

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

— Robert Olen Butler

“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

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

— Robert Gregory Browne

plot is character in action.

— Maren Elwood

Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they…

— Anne Lamott

Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens,…

— Colin Greenland

I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal…

— Julianna Baggott

The character's attitude is more important than plot.

— Stephen J. Cannell

Character is the plot in many ways

— Junot Diaz

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

— Renata Adler

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

— Mike Judge

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