Easy Quote by Carol Anshaw

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

— David Levithan

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it...

— Erica Jong

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

— Jodi Picoult

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

— David Mamet

Life, to me, doesn't feel like a straightforward story; it doesn't make sense for me to get up there and just tell a story.…

— Bo Burnham

Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.

— Dan Chaon

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess:…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

— Ernest Hemingway

I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally…

— Sarah Dessen

The worst thing you can try to do is to steer the story once it gets going. You just kind of follow along and…

— Stephen King

We don't experience our lives as plots. If I asked you to tell me what your last week was like, you're not really gonna…

— Teju Cole