Quotes About Plot Twists

#1. I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.

David Brin

#2. God is the creator of all good plot twists!

Shannon L. Alder

#3. Delicious ... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise, and unsentimental realism I'd expect out of a George R. R. Martin project.

Austin Grossman

#4. My journey, however, has followed a far less predictable story: stalled chapters, unexpected plot twists, and dozens of rewrites that have left the ending more than a little uncertain.

Mandy Hale

#5. Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.

A.L. Mabry

#6. When I started 'Still Missing,' I had a few key plot points in mind, which I played around with mentally for a couple of months, then one day I just started writing. Not having an outline led to some cool plot twists, but also many rewrites! A lot of the plotting happened on subsequent drafts.

Chevy Stevens

#7. The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. Beating up on public schools is not just our nation's favorite blood sport, but also a favorite conversational entertainment of the well-off - like debating the most recent toothsome plot twists of 'Big Love' - who, of course, have no dog in the fight.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#9. The best plot twists are the ones you didn't expect.

Shannon L. Alder

#10. I found the final plot twist unsatisfying, as plot twists often are: nothing like life, which - it seems to me - turns less on shocks or theatrics than on the small quiet moments, misunderstandings, or disappointments, the things that it's easy to overlook.

Harriet Lane

#11. As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.

Marie Lu

#12. As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends; the line between good and evil is murky indeed; and nothing goes quite as we expect. With eye-popping plot twists and rollicking good action, Half a King is definitely a full adventure.

Rick Riordan

#13. I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

David Burnett

#15. You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#16. Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character's choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned.

Neal Shusterman

#17. The city I inhabit now is not the city that I moved to in 1926; it has become a mean-spirited action movie complete with repulsive plot twists and preposterous dialogue.

Kathleen Rooney

#18. When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.

Danny Pudi

#19. Meryl Streep is awesome.

Isabelle Fuhrman

#20. I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living

John Flanagan

#21. Don't look outside in the world or in wilderness to find the peace, look inside your heart, where it resides.

Debasish Mridha

#22. The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and a plot that twists and turns as it hurtles forward. A grand debut. One taste, and you'll be addicted.

Keith Donohue

#23. Barrie wanted to fall into him, her lost to his found, her need to his want. Kissing was like the physical form of magic, all potential and the sense that anything might happen. When she was kissing Eight, she felt like she could fly.

Martina Boone

#24. The passageway smelled like decaying bodies and lavender. Her nose found it entertaining. The rocky tunnel ate their footsteps. Camin Barice wanted it to steal their voices. Then, she wouldn't have to listen to the aggravating filth spilling from her charges holes.

Auden Johnson

#25. Life, the dramatist of speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.

Glen Duncan

#26. In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The story line or plot in nonfiction consists of the twists and turns of a thought process working itself out.

Phillip Lopate

#27. You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.

Betty Friedan

#28. Making those CDs, signing them, numbering them, packing them. It takes hundreds of hours, but it's worth it because I'm able to do the thing I love.

Michael Gira

#29. The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

Rory Miller

#30. My first real crush was... Louis Tomlinson.

Harry Styles

#31. The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

David Hasselhoff

#32. Too normal, I'd worry about. Too weird is perfectly fine.

Annabel Joseph

#33. I am thankful for all the blessings and talents I have been given, but most of all I am thankful for my loving and supportive family.

Olivia Holt

#34. Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)

Stephen Dobyns

#35. I'm striving for greatness, reaching for the stars, and trying to avoid being burnt by the sun!

Joan L. Sample

#36. The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I've seen in a long time. This girl can handle herself! The plot is full of ingenious twists, turns and surprises, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

L.J.Smith