Book Quote by Alice Hoffman

Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into a book.

— Rebecca Serle

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

— James Herbert

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in…

— Chinua Achebe

Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out…

— Erin Morgenstern

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers…

— Jeffery Deaver

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

— Patrick deWitt

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

— Ellen Potter

I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read. The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we…

— James A. Baldwin

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster

There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to…

— Terry Pratchett

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