Books Quote by Victor LaValle

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

— Chris Baty

“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people…

— Anne Lamott

“... plot, the absolute line between two points which I've always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope away. Everyone,…

— Grace Paley

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud

“There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer. Humanity itself seems to matter more to the novelist than what humanity thinks…

— Eudora Welty

“For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its…

— Julio Cortázar

“I raise an eyebrow, working to achieve the right tone of intellectual superiority. “If you've never read the Twilight books or the Hunger Games…

— Anne Eliot

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true…

— Anonymous

“Sooooooooo much literary fiction I get in the old query inbox is plotless. It's just a character musing about the vagaries and eccentricities of…

— Nathan Bransford literary agent

“I never write the storyline ahead of the novel and stick to it like glue. I prefer my writing to be organic. It takes…

— Airambooksie

“Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others.”

— Orson Scott Card

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly