A good plot is like a dream that you don't want to end.
Every great story seems to begin with a snake.
Plot is people. It's the human activities that make up the story, that make it good or bad.
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story stripped of excess.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
The plot thickens, as they say. Why someone would want to kill him and not finish the job is beyond me.
A plot is a conspiracy against time.
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
The first sentence can't be written until the final sentence is written.
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
You can make anything by writing.