Best Quote by Brian Selznick

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my…

— Siegfried Lenz

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when…

— Judy Blume

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

— Michael Ondaatje

I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to…

— Iain Banks

Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when…

— Taylor Sheridan

Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their…

— Neal Shusterman

I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.

— Sara Zarr

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot…

— Terry Pratchett

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

I'm not sure if a writer should talk about themes. Themes arrive out of the deeper structure and concerns, but to me, the main…

— David Means

Character is the plot in many ways

— Junot Diaz

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

— David Levithan