I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.
Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.
It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.
I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.