Absence Quote by David Shields

I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

— Patrick deWitt

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose…

— Lynn Coady

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

— Meg Rosoff

I detest the word plot. I never, never think of plot. I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters; I'll tell…

— Stirling Silliphant

There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.

— Jim Thompson

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of…

— Richard Linklater

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

— Joe R. Lansdale

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers…

— Jeffery Deaver

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

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

— Renata Adler

“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