Believer Quote by Michael Scott

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

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'm one of the narrative-push people. I don't outline, I don't plan ahead. So I'm my first reader, telling myself the story as I'm…

— Donald E. Westlake

“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

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

— J. K. Rowling

I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable. That's the…

— Susan Choi

After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in plot-building. I…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes…

— Scott Westerfeld

I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a…

— Clive Cussler

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

— Meg Rosoff

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.

— David McCullough

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with…

— George Stephen