Junot Diaz Quotes

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

I love a really good storyline.

We need the villain sometimes. It makes for an interesting story.

Character is plot, plot is character.

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.

An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.

The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about character or theme or mood or mode or tense or person. But bowlers say, if you make the spares, the strikes will take care of themselves. If you can tell a story, everything else becomes possible. But without story, nothing is possible, because nobody wants to hear about your sensitive characters if there's nothing happening in the story. And the same is true with mood. Story is the only thing that's important.

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

It was always about the story rather than the character.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

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

'Rozabal' was theological while 'Chanakya' is political. Unlike 'Rozabal,' which was about research, the aim of 'Chanakya' is plot, plot, plot, which carries the character. The common DNA, of course, is history.

The villain drives the plot.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.