Hats Quote by Agatha Christie

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

— Roald Dahl

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.

— Lauren Beukes

“An idea doesn’t have to be a plot notion, just a place to begin creating. Plots often generate themselves when one begins to ask…

— Neil Gaiman

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories…

— John Irving

Nobody does a lot of plotting. They can't. Everybody wants to do that in life, but I think it's almost impossible. Opportunities present themselves,…

— Julianne Moore

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me

— Caroline B. Cooney

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.

— Arthur Bradford

I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me,…

— Siegfried Lenz

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

— William Landay

My best ideas almost always come from winding up in unexpected places and stumbling across things I never could have imagined in advance.

— Damian Kulash

I'm a well-intentioned plotter who ends up with wondrous pantsing revelations and (at times) ginormous rewrites that look almost nothing like my carefully plotted…

— Violet Duke