A good plot is like a dream.

“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

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

— Peter Temple

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

— David Mamet

“I say--I've thought of a good plot for a detective story." "Really?" "Top--hole. You know, the sort that people bring out and say 'I've…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“A good plot should have a strong middle and a spectacular end. But under no circumstances should it have a beginning.”

— A.M. Dean

“Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which "you can't tell what is going to…

— Arnold Bennett

Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

— Louis Auchincloss

“Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very…

— Sara Sheridan

The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard,…

— Kristin Davis

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

— Shirley Hazzard

Sometimes life seems like a dream, especially when I look down and see that I forgot to put on my pants.

— Jack Handey

Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.

— Karl Kraus

Being alone is like breathing fresh air but, when you realise you are alone it's like a dream

— K Suan Lal

I don't dream a lot. But whenever I dream, I just dream about the day I just had or something like that. Mostly that's…

— Lil Wayne