Plot Quotes · Page 45

I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot…

— Evel Knievel

“Christ in a Pinata` how have I over complicated the plot?”

— Scott Parker

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every…

— Francis Quarles

I started out as a poet who primarily wanted to write about image and moment. Over the years I've been trying to…

— Dan Chaon

I really like the spooky twists and the intense mystery. I think the various plot devices work really well for TV, but…

— Sara Shepard

Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening". . .The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored. . .The…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.

— Joe R. Lansdale

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

— Jim Steinmeyer

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In…

— Tony Hillerman

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

— Rupert Holmes

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

— David Mamet

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

Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

— Brandon Sanderson

Your life will have chapters, complete with crazy characters, villains and a plot you can't even imagine as you sit here today.…

— Sharyn Alfonsi

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

— Sara Sheridan

Cartoons for girls don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness. Girls like stories with real conflict; girls are smart…

— Lauren Faust

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

— Khaled Hosseini

Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention…

— Dean Koontz

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

— David Brin

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a…

— Eric Hoffer

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths…

— Douglas Coupland

“Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of…

— Patricia Hamill

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the…

— Brian Helgeland

I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.

— Len Wiseman

I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on…

— Sarah Zettel