Character Quote by Peter Paige

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

— Jessica Shirvington

No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.

— Brad Stone

When we approach characters, we don't have their full story in mind right off the bat. Through the writing process we raise questions about…

— Anna Boden

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story…

— Aaron Ehasz

A story is built on characters and reasons.

— Steven Amsterdam

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

— Christopher Bollen

Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it.

— Sushan

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

— Keith Miller

“Characters who simply have goals opposed by others do not create the effects of a story.”

— Bill Johnson

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from…

— Anonymous

Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to…

— Stephen Coonts