Characters Quote by Rachel Aaron

“If you spend enough time with your characters, plot simply happens.”

— Chris Baty

“There's a story unfolding with a definite beginning and an eventual end, and even though we can't begin to imagine what the whole plot…

— Ann Tatlock

“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

“The character drives the plot, and the plot molds the character’s arc. They cannot work independently.”

— K.M. Weiland

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

— Jonathan Carroll

“A plot, whether abandoned by a reader or pursued rapturously, remains itself, and gets where it is headed even if nobody is looking.”

— Gregory Maguire

“It is only the failure of my plots I fear.”

— Shulamith Firestone

“Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.”

— Dexter Palmer

“Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which "you can't tell what is going to…

— Arnold Bennett

“That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.”

— Billy Wilder

“We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much…

— Patrick Ness

“My characters tell me how they feel about other characters and events and they demand that I write it down for them.”

— Lindsay Marene Ordone