"I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. . . . Every book w..."
- J.R. Moehringer
"But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?"
- Shannon Hale
"Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nine..."
- Jeffrey Eugenides
"And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back in the summer with which it begins, and finally, instead of following the hero onto the cli..."
- Franz Kafka
"You need a revolution in your life so as to know the plot of the devil and discover the thoughts of the Lord toward you"
- Sunday Adelaja
"Nothing belongs to itself anymore. These trees are yours because you once looked at them. These streets are yours because you once traversed them. These coffee shops and bookshops, these cafés and bar..."
- Kamand Kojouri
"But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, ..."
- Joyce Carol Oates
"The night it fallsThe stars shine throughThe inky blackThat is the cueFor plot demandsThat dreams be sownThe fantasies I have aloneThe words come fastThey flow like wineI am the midnight writer..."
- Virginia Alison
"We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear."
"Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them."