Book Quote by Jonathan Carroll

“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

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

— Chris Baty

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work…

— H. P. Lovecraft

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in…

— Chinua Achebe

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

— Norman Rush

The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.

— Nelson Algren

“The ending to your book is different from the ending to your plot.”

— Jennifer Probst

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

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

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

— Alan Lightman