Chapters Quote by Sylvia Day

I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

— William Landay

“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 love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked…

— Larry Gelbart

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

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

I'm a well-intentioned plotter who ends up with wondrous pantsing revelations and (at times) ginormous rewrites that look almost nothing like my carefully plotted…

— Violet Duke

“The plot thickens.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“If you spend enough time with your characters, plot simply happens.”

— Chris Baty

“They always try to trick you, deliberately throwing extraneous plot lines just to confuse and misguide you, withholding important information until the last chapter,…

— Moxie Mezcal

Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens,…

— Colin Greenland

I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come across as…

— Gaelen Foley