Balance Quote by Tobsha Learner

I like fast plots with things that explode.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

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

— Eleanor Catton

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

I hate plots.

— Per Petterson

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

“Dick, meanwhile, turned to Mr. Bloeckman, determined to extract what gold he could from this unpromising load. 'I hear all the new novels are…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.

— Don DeLillo

I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in…

— Stephen King

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

— Alan Furst

I see everything visually. It's very visual for me. And so I think, from a plotting standpoint or what have you, there's obviously a…

— Michael Landon, Jr

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