The thick plottens.

“The plot thickens.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“All plots are cliche.”

— Jincy Willett

“That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.”

— Billy Wilder

“A good plot is like a well-crafted puzzle. Each piece is vital to the bigger picture, connecting to each other to tell the larger…

— Janice Hardy

“He was going to rip Plott apart, piece by piece.”

— Beverly Barton

“Everything is some kind of a plot, man.”

— Thomas Pynchon

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

“It is the thinnest lines that define us.”

— David Macinnis Gill

“lines and angles, flat and bland, raise these volumes and make them stand.”

— James Moloney

“rounded, satisfying weight of the simplicity of the idea. He looks at them.”

— Jonathan Stone

“Maybe more of us should have plots. Let's take them out of books and put them back in life where they belong.”

— Jennifer Ball

“Length is weight in fiction, pretty much.”

— Joan Silber

“... plot, the absolute line between two points which I've always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope away. Everyone,…

— Grace Paley

“The character drives the plot, and the plot molds the character’s arc. They cannot work independently.”

— K.M. Weiland

“Long and almost as thick as my wrist,”

— Maya Cross