Character is plot, plot is character. - F Scott Fitzgerald

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book. - Ann Patchett

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something - Plato

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr. - John Green