My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered…

Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the…

— James N. Frey

Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and…

— Elizabeth Sims

Plot comes first. The plot is the archictecture of your novel. You wouldn't build a house without a plan. If I wrote without a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when…

— Taylor Sheridan

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

— Erica Jong

The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.

— Nelson Algren

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

— Charlie Cox

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

— Anthony Horowitz

O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days…

— George Whitefield

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

— Jessica Savitch

Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view…

— Robert Mugabe

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

— Thomas Jefferson

The reason we have to regulate . . . church schools is that . . . children that are not trained in state-controlled schools will not fit in.

— Peter Hoagland

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation,…

— Gus Van Sant

If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become…

— Richard Dawkins