Plot Quotes · Page 13

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

— Mike Judge

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

— David Duchovny

“If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.”

— Sara Sheridan

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals…

— Alice Hoffman

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

— Rupert Holmes

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

— David Levithan

I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

— Dorothy Fields

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

— Scott Westerfeld

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

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling.…

— David Brin

Some people will always ground themselves very strongly in a piece of soil, a grandmother's property, a tiny plot of land, and…

— Pico Iyer

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

— Gagan Narang

Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit;…

— Robert E. Howard

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in…

— Harvey Fierstein

And there is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my…

— Liz Tuccillo

We also have to match the skills with the needs of the economy... I think we are losing the plot because we…

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every…

— Mikhail Lermontov

The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living…

— Italo Calvino

“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the…

— Aristotle

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next-…

— Jasper Fforde

A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass…

— Tim Maleeny

Jeff Eastin is good in that he'll tell me a plot twist that's coming up if he thinks it would be something…

— Tim DeKay

In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get…

— Jim Ratcliffe

I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story…

— Sara Zarr

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

— Ann Hood

If we're going to engage in juicy plot devices, I still want them to be carefully considered.

— Jerrika Hinton

My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

— Barry Hannah

Its plot is loose and tortuous and will take some time for its stars to emerge.

— Alan Hamilton

Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.

— Stewart O'Nan

Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.

— W. P. Kinsella

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

— James Ellroy

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

— Renata Adler

Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.

— Nicholas Sparks

Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb…

— James Russell Lowell

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

— Anita Desai

Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot.

— Jeff VanderMeer

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

— Lucy Grealy

In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.

— Jesse Michaels