Getting better Quote by Rick Bass

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

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 never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

— Steven Soderbergh

I write largely plot-driven stories.

— Ravi Subramanian

I think screenwriting gave me more of an affinity for plot - my first novel, 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,' doesn't have…

— Jesse Andrews

I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.

— Eleanor Catton

The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in…

— Dave Barry

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of…

— Richard Linklater

Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.

— Tom Johnson

I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it.

— Celeste Ng