Books Quote by Antonio Garrido

“That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.”

— Billy Wilder

“I don't know what to say about it, except that it moved me in a way one hopes to be moved each time he…

— Nicole Krauss

“Dick, meanwhile, turned to Mr. Bloeckman, determined to extract what gold he could from this unpromising load. 'I hear all the new novels are…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If you spend enough time with your characters, plot simply happens.”

— Chris Baty

“The character drives the plot, and the plot molds the character’s arc. They cannot work independently.”

— K.M. Weiland

“Reading is one way I cope. I go somewhere else for a while and submerge myself in the character's problems instead of my mine.”

— Stephanie Lawton

“A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.”

— George Orwell

“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“A plot, whether abandoned by a reader or pursued rapturously, remains itself, and gets where it is headed even if nobody is looking.”

— Gregory Maguire

“This means the literary effect is not the main concern here; the author is more concerned with plot. And that plot must be relatively…

— Stella Gibbons

“The characters write the story … I just get to be the first one to read it!”

— Sam Bradley

“There was once a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler’s mind.”

— Douglas Adams