Quotes about Plot

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A novel is a tricky thing to map. — Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I foll — Bonnie Friedman, Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life
Never did an eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty — Karen Amanda Hooper, Tangled Tides
She wasn't blotto, she was plotting. — Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
Give a smile to your enemies and they will go mad wondering what you are plotting against them. — Amit Abraham
The biggest twist in fiction might be a story ending exactly how you thought it would. — Kevin Focke
Some days I feel more like a scribe than a creator. I will have the major points fleshed out, but there is always a turn — J. Neven-Pugh
Not telling everything you know is not the same as telling a lie. — Glenda Bailey-Mershon, Eve's Garden
The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every pi — Victor LaValle
Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of — Sara Sheridan
...you mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly... — John Geddes
Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer de — Bailey Vincent, The Details of How We Lived
T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to devel — Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
Find the problem, find the story. — John Brown