Plot Quotes

A plot is two dogs and one bone.

— Robert Newton Peck

Real life seems to have no plots.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.

— Dorothy Parker

“A good plot is like a dream.”

— Roald Dahl

Character is the plot in many ways

— Junot Diaz

“Plots are for dead people.”

— Anonymous

Plot is the knowing of destination.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“I have a clever and devious plan.”

— Steven Brust

I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.

— Arthur Bradford

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

— George Lucas

To me, action has to come from the plot.

— Farhan Akhtar

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

— Ellen Potter

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

— Vanna Bonta

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

— Eric Idle

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

— Jodi Picoult

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot.

— Sun Tzu

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

— Dean Koontz

Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find…

— Alexis Denisof

Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I…

— Dave Barry

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

— Holly Black

What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.

— Julie Carmen

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

— Harvey Fierstein

There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.

— P. J. O'Rourke

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take…

— Ti West

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— Eoin Colfer

“A plot, whether abandoned by a reader or pursued rapturously, remains itself, and gets where it is headed even if nobody is…

— Gregory Maguire

There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle…

— Gagan Narang

A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give…

— Mark Haddon

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

— George Whitefield

These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when…

— Pamela Clare

What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much…

— Terry Teachout

I always feel funny when I don't reveal things, especially to you [the press], who have supported us so much and are…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to…

— Guy Claxton

I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have…

— Tony Kushner

I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art…

— Vito Acconci

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That…

— Chuck Palahniuk