Analyzing Quote by George Stephen

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

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying…

— Jonathan Franzen

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

— Jo Nesbo

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

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

— J. K. Rowling

I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by…

— Anthony Burgess

I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a…

— Clive Cussler

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a…

— Dorothy Fields

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

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much…

— Elmore Leonard

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

— Jaron Lanier

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you…

— Walter Jon Williams