Book Quote by Ned Beauman

The plot is very important because writers have to play fair with their readers, but no one would care about the plot if the…

— Karin Slaughter

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

The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people…

— Sarah Hall

Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into a book.

— Rebecca Serle

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers…

— Jeffery Deaver

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.

— Richard Hell

The most important thing for me is realism. I don't like writing which does somersaults on the page, and I'm no great fan of…

— Nick Hornby

You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in…

— David Foster Wallace

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

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot…

— Tracey Emin