Blood Quote by Walter Mosley

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out…

— Caroline Lawrence

“Plot is certainly a part of constructing a story. It’s a factor in outlining. But believe it or not, it’s the least important factor.…

— Libbie Hawker

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

— Charles Stross

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as…

— Jim Thompson

Creating one single story often requires experimenting and planning and falling on your literary rear more than once before you find the way that…

— Nancy Lam

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make…

— John Dufresne

I detest the word plot. I never, never think of plot. I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters; I'll tell…

— Stirling Silliphant

“I believe that no matter what “plot” each of our stories may follow, deep down we all want one thing. We want our lives…

— John C. Maxwell

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working…

— William Faulkner

“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

My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching…

— Juliet Marillier