Action Quote by Mel Brooks

“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

Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when…

— Judy Blume

First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply…

— Robert Harris

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

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

Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.

— Tom Johnson

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

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

— Lisa Unger

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

— Lisa Unger

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