Quote by David Morley

“She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.”

— Donna Leon

“A story is a labyrinth, it looks as if there were several ways to go, but only one is right, and there's a nasty…

— Cornelia Funke

“The character drives the plot, and the plot molds the character’s arc. They cannot work independently.”

— K.M. Weiland

“I was in the midst of narrating a wicked chapter where the heroine is tied up and blindfolded, when it finally happened.”

— Genna Rulon

“The story thread suddenly dropped in a hopeless snarl, just as he was about to get it through the needle's eye of the first…

— Cornell Woolrich

“She was a novel whose plot became more interesting as I delved deeper into the book.”

— Michael Baron

“There's supposed to be drama. The dull stories never make it into the books.”

— Ellery Adams

“If you spend enough time with your characters, plot simply happens.”

— Chris Baty

“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in memorable prose. ”

— Will Blythe

“Then she appears, the fantasy which haunts my dreams. The creature who taunts me without having one Goddamn clue of the internal chaos she…

— Sadie Grubor

“The characters write the story … I just get to be the first one to read it!”

— Sam Bradley

“So, Ariadne was the babe with the ball of twine and the plan.”

— Claire Cross