Plot Quotes · Page 14

“What truly matters isn’t your feelings or even those of your characters—it’s the emotional experience of your audience.”

— Will Raywood

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

— Gloria Steinem

I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film.

— Samuel L. Jackson

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

— Patrick Rothfuss

There's a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman, and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I…

— John F. Kennedy

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

— Nancy Gibbs

“The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

— Joseph Jacobs

Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write…

— Etgar Keret

In other words, you've got a journey as the plot, but it has to be in a lively environment, being able to…

— Paul Laffoley

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue…

— Paul Valery

Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue…

— Claire Tomalin

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they…

— Margaret Atwood

Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a…

— Marquis de Sade

I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing…

— Julianna Baggott

DePaul's plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and…

— Norman Finkelstein

This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…

— E. M. Forster

The plot details of B movies are irrational: accept that people do things that are contradictory, against their own best interests, have…

— Robert Fripp

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that…

— Joe Hill

The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in…

— Sam Shepard

I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my…

— Adam Ross

When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure…

— Walter Cronkite

Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of…

— Marcus Aurelius

The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way…

— Norman Cousins

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

— Bryan Fuller

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier,…

— Nicolas Roeg

I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

— Len Wein

The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?

— Graham Greene

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

— Barry Hannah

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

— Jean de La Fontaine

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are…

— Jim Thompson

Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot.

— Jim Steinmeyer

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

— Zoe Kazan

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.

— Cassandra Clare

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.

— Don DeLillo

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

— Lasse Hallstrom

Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work…

— Neil Gaiman

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of…

— W. H. Auden