Adverbs Quote by Colum McCann

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

— Dean Koontz

plot is character in action.

— Maren Elwood

“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.”

— David Mitchell

“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

“This means the literary effect is not the main concern here; the author is more concerned with plot. And that plot must be relatively…

— Stella Gibbons

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he…

— Stephen King

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

“Sooooooooo much literary fiction I get in the old query inbox is plotless. It's just a character musing about the vagaries and eccentricities of…

— Nathan Bransford literary agent

Character is plot, plot is character.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

— Aristotle

Character is plot, and casting is character.

— Warren Beatty

“Plot these days is anti-intellectual and verboten, the mark of the Philistine, the huckster with a pen. There mustn't be too much story and…

— Robert Traver