Character Quote by Stephen King

My stories are character driven.

— Terry McMillan

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

— Steven Soderbergh

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a…

— Dick Wolf

It's really, always, the story and the characters that come first, and the other things are kind of dealt with in time or, in…

— Pete Docter

...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

— Holly Smale

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with…

— Ann Beattie

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

— Nora Roberts

I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different.

— Keri Russell

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

— Scarlett Thomas

Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.

— Charles Baxter

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

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

— Sushan