Achieve Quote by Robert Olen Butler

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

— Robert Gregory Browne

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

— Margaret Bechard

Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike…

— Leigh Brackett

Character is the plot in many ways

— Junot Diaz

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

plot is character in action.

— Maren Elwood

Character is plot, plot is character.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.

— James N. Frey

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

— Norman Rush

“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