Big Quote by Lisa Unger

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the…

— David Maraniss

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

— Ernest Gaines

My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my…

— Pat Conroy

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning.

— John Grisham

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

“I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy any kind of…

— Charles de Lint

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my…

— Siegfried Lenz

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

— Michael Connelly

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave…

— Mark Millar

The reason I choose the stories I choose - and it's why it takes me so long to find ideas - is that I'm…

— Erik Larson

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political…

— Isabel Allende

I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.

— Sara Zarr