Character Quote by Nancy Kress Download Open image “Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect.” — Nancy Kress ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Conflict Plot War
Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen. — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion,… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved.… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Drama is always conflict. Conflict either comes from within or without. The thing that makes a show different is the conflict manifests itself both… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.” — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
“Miri once told me that there were only four important questions you could ask about any human being: How does he fill up his… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
