Character Quote by Norman Rush Download Open image “The characters write the plot. Their natures do.” — Norman Rush ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Nature Plot Writing
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 Copy Share Image
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires. — Robert Gregory Browne Copy Share Image
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges. — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
“Nina said, “Have regular facial expressions.” That was a command from their inventory of facetious devices they used to josh one another out of… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I feel like someone after a deluge being asked to describe the way it was before the flood while I'm still plucking seaweed out… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“And the question was still there of whether their true interior selves—the subtle bodies inside—were still there and functioning despite what age and accident… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe. — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“There is no permanent friendship between men, among men. Something goes wrong, somebody marries the wrong person, somebody advances too fast, somebody converts, somebody… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
“A utopia I would join in a minute is a society which could be communist or capitalist, anything, except that no woman member of… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
I wanted to incorporate everything, understand everything, because time is cruel and nothing stays the same. — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live. — Norman Rush 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
