Assumption Quote by Ben Affleck

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

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing…

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I try not to articulate ideas in the film once I've arrived on the plot and the characters. I believe that if I focus…

— Ira Sachs

The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of…

— Elizabeth Berg

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

— James Ellroy

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

— Vanna Bonta

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The quality of this novel is the way the plot is treated and not the plot itself.

— Anonymous

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot…

— Carol Anshaw

If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.

— Chloe Grace Moretz