Character Quote by Raymond Queneau

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

— Chris Brogan

If somebody is in a story, they need to be there for a reason, and not just to set up somebody else's story.

— Joss Whedon

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound…

— Ann Beattie

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets…

— Caroline B. Cooney

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

I think the idea is to try and understand everything about the characters and where the character is coming from, from their point of…

— Paul Dano

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell him things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character or someone…

— Cate Blanchett

A story is built on characters and reasons.

— Steven Amsterdam

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say…

— Joy Williams

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

— Stefan Sagmeister

We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with…

— James Franco