Story Characters Quotes
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I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
— Markus Zusak
But we are not the Author of our story. We are the characters.
— Kara Tippetts
Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.
— Quinn Anderson
But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.
— Keith Miller
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
— Christopher Nolan
A story is built on characters and reasons.
— Steven Amsterdam
Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.
— Federico Chini
When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.
— Julie Kagawa
I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.
— Keri Russell
The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.
— Brandon Sanderson
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If [the characters] grow a lot, they begin to influence the course of the story instead of the other way around.
— Stephen King
Character development is vital when writing a strong story. Weak characters make for weak stories.
— Beem Weeks
If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.
— Morris Gleitzman
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.
— Karen Blixen
The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story
— Brandt Legg
Characters to the Story,
— Wilkie Collins
'The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.
— Evangeline Lilly
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
— Julianna Baggott
What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.
— Shannon L. Alder
To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.
— Greg McHugh
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.
— Sidney Lumet
As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.
— Stephen King
You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.
— Todd Lieberman
As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.
— Eric Jerome Dickey
Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story.
— Diane Setterfield
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
— Anita Desai
The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
— John Lasseter
Anyone can be a story. Everyone is.
— Johnny Rich
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
— Seth Grahame-Smith
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.
— Nancy Kress
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
— Ernest Gaines
The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.
— Stewart O'Nan
You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.
— James Dashner
When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.
— Josh Hutcherson
In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.
— Jefferson Smith
Once upon a time she had felt trapped inside her story with its familiar characters and predictable plot. Now she felt locked out of it.
— Roderick Townley
I am a tremendous 'Star Wars' fan; I know the story means an enormous love to me. I love the characters.
— Richard Marquand
Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.
— Michael Scott
We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.
— Chris Meledandri
Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends.
— Sarah J. Maas
I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story.
— Eric Brown
You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.
— Jennifer McMahon
Characters who simply have goals opposed by others do not create the effects of a story.
— Bill Johnson
Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
— Nicholas Lea
It doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. They come and go, and when they go, they're gone for good.
— Diane Setterfield
I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.
— Joanne Kelly
While the characters drive the epic story of Robotech, it's the robotic mecha that capture the imagination.
— Tommy Yune
The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.
— Francine Rivers
I prefer playing characters that are going through turmoil. Most movie characters are just in service to the story.
— Jesse Eisenberg
Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I think I technically learned some things, hopefully. But I go to the movies for characters and story and a berserk vision.
— John Waters
I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal.
— Julie Klassen
If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.
— Catherine Hardwicke
My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.
— Julianna Baggott
It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
— Jane Campion
I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes.
— Michael Schur
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
— Nic Pizzolatto
The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.
— Elizabeth Banks
You can't write a sory until you've felt. Breathe it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story.
— Angelica Banks
Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires. — Robert Gregory Browne
The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.
— George V. Higgins
You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
— John Lasseter
I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.
— Spike Lee
Sometimes we're so wrapped up in our own story that we don't see how we're supporting characters in someone else's. So
— Nathan Hill
Their situation was becoming ever harder to deny: they were characters in someone's story. This whole world— Stephen King
I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters ... yet people are trying to pull me down.
— Nick Simmons
Out of silence I begin to hear the voices of characters whispering snippets of a story to me.
— Chuck Waldron
Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.
— Paulette Jiles
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.
— David Corbett
You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.
— Randy Alcorn
It's not a romance, it's a love story.
— Sadie Jones
