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“That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.”

— Billy Wilder

“I don’t believe in skipping ahead Dale. I read the book all the way through.”

— Jay Crownover

“The walls around the hood keep the people on the inside from the changes on the outside.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“. . . these errand-boys and furtive and fugitive girls who, ignoring their doom, look in at shop windows? But I am aware of our ephemeral passage.”

— Virginia Woolf

“I'm following it perfectly. Although, if this were a novel, I'd take the trouble to reread the last paragraph as carefully as possible.”

— César Aira

“plot is not the story, but an Ariadne's thread you follow through a labyrinth of scenes.”

— David Morley

“Word to the wise writer...never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them...they sneak off with stuff.”

— Ka Hancock

“You can't blame a book for its story.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“The characters write the story … I just get to be the first one to read it!”

— Sam Bradley

“There's a story unfolding with a definite beginning and an eventual end, and even though we can't begin to imagine what the whole plot…

— Ann Tatlock

“I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can't bear such a story will see at once what they are…

— C.S. Lewis

“...ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's…

— Shandy L. Kurth