Conventional Quote by Ben Lerner

I realised that what I loved was descriptive writing rather than something with a plot.

— Arlo Parks

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

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

My decision to view the world through novels, as it were, which is a typically European way of looking at things, became a heavy…

— Orhan Pamuk

I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is…

— John Irving

So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?

— Nora Ephron

I've always felt that the writing I responded to most - the novels and stories that compelled me, that felt like they described the…

— Jonathan Lethem

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

— Anthony Doerr

When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in the day…

— Colin Firth

I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format…

— Jackie French

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways,…

— Anne Tyler

I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something…

— John Irving