Character Quote by Michael Scott

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a…

— Ray Bradbury

You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.

— Christian Marclay

I never started from ideas but always from character.

— Ivan Turgenev

Every project starts with a story.

— Colleen Atwood

Everything begins with an idea.

— Earl Nightingale

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my…

— Siegfried Lenz

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

Everything starts with a story.

— Joseph Campbell

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

— Anonymous

A story is built on characters and reasons.

— Steven Amsterdam

It's really, always, the story and the characters that come first, and the other things are kind of dealt with in time or, in…

— Pete Docter