Books Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out…

— Erin Morgenstern

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 never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least…

— Ned Beauman

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

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

— Samuel Goldwyn

I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made a mistake…

— Ben Affleck

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

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

— Jonathan Carroll

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 quality of this novel is the way the plot is treated and not the plot itself.

— Anonymous

Plot comes first. The plot is the archictecture of your novel. You wouldn't build a house without a plan. If I wrote without a…

— Barbara Kingsolver