Progress Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens,…

— Colin Greenland

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'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the…

— Denise Mina

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence…

— Elizabeth George

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

— JoAnn Ross

“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

“Plot is certainly a part of constructing a story. It’s a factor in outlining. But believe it or not, it’s the least important factor.…

— Libbie Hawker

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

— Mike Judge

“A denouement is not a complete or fully resolved ending but a satisfying closure to a story. [in French translates 'an untying, a relaxing…

— Dan B. Allender

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories…

— John Irving

“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