Act 3 is the whole book in miniature. There’s a beginning, middle, and end. Rising action, climax, and falling action. - Jeff Gerke

When you are in the middle of a story, it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It’s only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else. - Margaret Atwood

Once I came to really understand the mechanics of three-act structure, my life got a great deal easier. It doesn’t tell you how to write your book, but it helps you understand why things aren’t working, or what kind of beat needs to come next. - Marcus Sakey

Write down everything that happens in the story, then in the second draft make it look like you knew what you were doing all along. – Neil Gaiman

Charlie, there are two kinds of thieves in this world: The ones who steal to enrich their lives, and those who steal to define their lives. Don't be the latter. Makes you miss out on what's really important in this life. - Italian Job

To be, or not to be, that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troublesAnd by opposing end them. To die—to sleep…To sleep, perchance to dream- William Shakespeare, Hamlet

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before. - Joseph Campbell

Only myths and fables do not know the limits of possibility. - Andrzej Sapkowski

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. - Ray BradburyBut how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page? - Shannon Hale

I don’t plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn’t be a closed system - it’s a quest. - Kurt Vonnegut

It was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, “tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,” but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson. - Drew Goddard

Hey, quick question: how do I plot a book?Write down everything that happens in the story, then in the second draft make it look like you knew what you were doing all along. - Neil Gaiman