" I write novels,” said Mr. Bouncer, feeling that Mr. Chaffanbrass must have been ignorant indeed of the polite literature of the day to make such a question necessary. “You mean fiction.” “Well, yes; fiction, — if you like that word better.” “I don’t like either, particularly. You have to find plots, haven’t you?” Mr. Bouncer paused a moment. “Yes; yes,” he said. “In writing a novel it is necessary to construct a plot.” “Where do you get ’em from?” “Where do I get ’em from?” “Yes, — where do you find them? You take them from the French mostly; — don’t you?” Mr. Bouncer became very red. “Isn’t that the way our English writers get their plots? "

― Anthony Trollope , Complete Works of Anthony Trollope