Plot Quotes · Page 28

“I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.”

— Vann Chow

I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden…

— Larry Gelbart

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

— Virginia Woolf

Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Watson love Mercy [Watson]. Eugenia hates Mercy. Baby likes Mercy. Mercy loves toast. And the plot,…

— Kate DiCamillo

The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going…

— Jack Nicklaus

What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these…

— John Baldessari

The character's attitude is more important than plot.

— Stephen J. Cannell

I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to…

— David Baldacci

Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in…

— Anonymous

“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

Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,'…

— Kevin Williamson

Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens…

— David Mamet

I continue to explain that plot inconsistencies in B movies are consistent, and should not be allowed to undermine one's enjoyment of…

— Robert Fripp

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

— Janet Maslin

We like to make sure there is a plot at the center of it and that you care about the people but…

— Harry Elfont

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

— Dave Barry

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

— Keith Miller

I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his…

— Kathryn Stockett

The thing with 'The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo' is that is it's like an Agatha Christie plot, and an investigating journalist…

— Niels Arden Oplev

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

— Bob Balaban

“Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.”

— Victor LaValle

I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have…

— Lorraine Adams

I love a life whose plot is simple.

— Henry David Thoreau

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

— Robert Gregory Browne

If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater,…

— Ted Dekker