Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“All good exposition is disguised by making it dramatic – by injecting conflict.”

— John Yorke

“There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“There's supposed to be drama. The dull stories never make it into the books.”

— Ellery Adams

“Every story is ultimately about characters, and how they are affected by their adventure.”

— Chris Fox

“It was as if the story had been added to, so as not to disgust people too much.”

— Carol Plum-Ucci

“Sooooooooo much literary fiction I get in the old query inbox is plotless. It's just a character musing about the vagaries and eccentricities of…

— Nathan Bransford literary agent

“It is the size of the characters’ desires that helps to make a sad story a tragedy.”

— Jean Hegland

“Many of us would not make terribly interesting characters in a novel.”

— Claire Wingfield

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“it is a tragedy and therefore not worth reading...”

— Jane Austen

“At first, this earth, a stage so gloomed with woe You all but sicken at the shifting scenes And yet be patient. Our playwright…

— Jack London

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts