Books Quote by Gregory Maguire

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty…

— Nema Al-Araby

“When a plot won't move forward, it's almost always because there's something I don't know about the characters or the world or why this…

— Rachel Aaron

“To leave a novel unfinished, is to leave the characters stranded.”

— Anonymous

“I know, but it is a pleasant fiction, my dear, and the sheer impossibility of a quest is no reason to abandon it.”

— Graham McNeill

“There's a story unfolding with a definite beginning and an eventual end, and even though we can't begin to imagine what the whole plot…

— Ann Tatlock

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

— Chris Baty

“You need to be careful of people who tell you that adventure exists at the next turn--because it turns out that they are not…

— Christopher Herz

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“A good plot should have a strong middle and a spectacular end. But under no circumstances should it have a beginning.”

— A.M. Dean

“By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and without character and plot, no book can survive.”

— Craig Hart

“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