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"When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story."
— Charles Baxter (Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction)

tags: destiny, discovery, fiction, mystery, overdetermination, perfection, plot, writing

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"Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth."
— Khalid Hosseini

tags: art, books, deception, fiction, lies, novels, plot, truth, weaving, writing

10 people liked it

""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 worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It's about words. It's about a man dealing with life. Okay?" "
— J. R. Moehringer

tags: books, emotion, plot

9 people liked it

"As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents."
— Philip Pullman

tags: plot

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"Character is plot, plot is character."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: character, plot

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"I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie)."
— Connie Willis (The Winds of Marble Arch)

tags: agatha, christie, plot, plotting

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"Be a good listener in the special way a story requires: note the manner of presentation; the development of plot, character; the addition of new dramatic sequences; the emphasis accorded to one figure or another in the recital; and the degree of enthusiam, of coherence, the narrator gives to his or her account."
— Robert Coles (The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination)

tags: character, plot, story

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