Book Quote by Rebecca Serle

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

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'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

I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and…

— Rick Bass

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

— Ellen Potter

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

— Kathy Reichs

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in…

— Dan Chaon

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

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least…

— Ned Beauman

Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books…

— J. M. Coetzee

Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out…

— Erin Morgenstern

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written…

— Edmund White