Books Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the…

— Elizabeth George

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in…

— Jim Jarmusch

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out…

— Caroline Lawrence

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of…

— Richard Linklater

“Plot is certainly a part of constructing a story. It’s a factor in outlining. But believe it or not, it’s the least important factor.…

— Libbie Hawker

“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people…

— Anne Lamott

When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story…

— Michael Ondaatje

I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a…

— Clive Cussler

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

— Jo Nesbo

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

We don't usually start out with a plot that we can pitch in two lines. We spend a year brainstorming and discussing ideas that…

— Joachim Trier

I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning -…

— Maira Kalman