Fashion Quote by Courtney A. Kemp

I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Characters who are absolutely sure about what they do, who plunge ahead without fear, are not that interesting. We don’t go through life that…

— James Scott Bell

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

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

— Margaret Bechard

When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.

— Greg Iles

I have a plot, but not much happens.

— Howard Nemerov

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the…

— Elizabeth George

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

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

— Mike Judge

People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away.

— Terence Winter

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