Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect.