Any Quote by Jim Webb

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

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction…

— Charles Baxter

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.

— Ellen Glasgow

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

— Catherine Jinks

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from…

— Anonymous

The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.

— Ayana Mathis

There's a perception that novels can't usually allow for your kind of absolute attention to detail.

— Zadie Smith

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

— Ellen Potter

My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and plot. If…

— Clarence Major

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are…

— Lauren Myracle

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty