If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it. — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
In 2013, I transferred my company Essential Hospitality that owned the plot to RKW Developers against full and final payment. No loans… — Raj Kundra Copy Share Image
You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,'… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they… — Mark Lawson Copy Share Image
“I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like… — J.R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“We are all the construction of a story and it is only at the end that we can assess the value of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work. — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not. — Grantland Rice Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state. — John Selden Copy Share Image
I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural. — JoAnn Ross Copy Share Image
Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut. The plot thickens. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“A plot-structure is a series of integrated, logically connected events, moved by a central purpose, leading to the resolution of a climax.” — Barbara Branden Copy Share Image
Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist. — Gerald Posner Copy Share Image
But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot. — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
In 2011, I negotiated to sell a plot that I owned near the airport to RKW Developers whose director was Dheeraj Wadhawan. — Raj Kundra Copy Share Image
