Anything Quote by Maira Kalman

“An idea doesn’t have to be a plot notion, just a place to begin creating. Plots often generate themselves when one begins to ask…

— Neil Gaiman

Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the…

— Elizabeth George

I hate plots.

— Per Petterson

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in…

— Jim Jarmusch

Plot comes first. The plot is the archictecture of your novel. You wouldn't build a house without a plan. If I wrote without a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.

— Jim Thompson

“A good plot should have a strong middle and a spectacular end. But under no circumstances should it have a beginning.”

— A.M. Dean

I detest the word plot. I never, never think of plot. I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters; I'll tell…

— Stirling Silliphant

I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence…

— Elizabeth George

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