Plot Quotes · Page 23

A plot is two dogs and one bone.

— Robert Newton Peck

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

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

— Mike Judge

“What the story does do, all it can do, is to transform us from readers into listeners, to whom 'a' voice speaks,…

— E.M. Forster

Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men…

— Gertrude Atherton

As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his…

— Virginia Woolf

The challenge that I set for myself was to see whether or not plot and structure could coexist, and why it was…

— Eleanor Catton

“I have a clever and devious plan.”

— Steven Brust

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

— John Selden

The Clinton machine is at the center of this power structure. We've seen this first hand in the WikiLeaks documents, in which…

— Donald Trump

Part of the plot was a knock that V wanted to bring down the government and bring chaos. I don't know why…

— David Lloyd

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.

— Alphonse Karr

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not…

— Tom Stoppard

I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful…

— Anne Graham Lotz

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

— J. K. Rowling

Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.

— Gerald Posner

Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the…

— Vivian Gornick

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

— Terence McKenna

I wanted to make a film about anorexia. I thought about it for a long time, but then gave up on this…

— Malgorzata Szumowska

I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline…

— Pamela Clare

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

— James Ellroy

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

— Anita Desai

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your…

— Gustave Flaubert

“I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding…

— philip pullman