Books Quote by Lionel Shriver

The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and like Cormac’s,…

— Rick DeMarinis

There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to…

— Terry Pratchett

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

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

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later…

— Piers Anthony

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

I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.

— Eleanor Catton

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

“If fast-paced entertainment is not among the pleasures generally offered by the literary novel, other pleasure often abound: a richness of language, a heart-breaking…

— Joshua Henkin

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 read THE WICKED + THE DIVINE last night, and no matter how high your expectations are for it, its better.

— Scott Snyder

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