Above Quote by Eleanor Catton

I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

— Jeff VanderMeer

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

— Mike Judge

“A plot-structure is a series of integrated, logically connected events, moved by a central purpose, leading to the resolution of a climax.”

— Barbara Branden

Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect.

— Nancy Kress

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

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

— Renata Adler

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

— David Shields

When you're telling taut, tight storytelling that has any kind of built-in plot twist elements, you tend to want to stack everything up on…

— Julie Plec

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization…

— Nancy Kress

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out…

— Caroline Lawrence

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

— Roald Dahl

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

— Jim Thompson