Plot Quotes · Page 6

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

— Ray Davies

“Plot is the structure of revelation.”

— Walter Mosely

“Not telling everything you know is not the same as telling a lie.”

— Glenda Bailey-Mershon

The character's attitude is more important than plot.

— Stephen J. Cannell

Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.

— David Duchovny

I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down.

— Andrew Scott

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

— Henry Rollins

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

— Virginia Woolf

Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms…

— Ovid

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

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

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

— Zoe Kazan

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

— Barry Hannah

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot…

— Shane Carruth

Steve [King] has been incredibly supportive. He's also really good about getting back to me when I have questions about plot or…

— Robin Furth

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although…

— Lauren Myracle

“When a plot won't move forward, it's almost always because there's something I don't know about the characters or the world or…

— Rachel Aaron

To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are…

— Herman Wouk

Night Owls is a fast, fun read that kept me turning the pages. Lauren M. Roy delivers a plot that zips, dialogue…

— Devon Monk

Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost.…

— William Raspberry

The Illusionist is the storyteller in so many ways. Symbols become his obsession. It's not simply about creating plot - one must…

— Porochista Khakpour

When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the…

— Tea Obreht

Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to…

— David Mamet

“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

“A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to…

— Aristotle

The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That…

— Cate Marvin

“Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice. The story which results from it is apt…

— Stephen King

I always pity people who have to write my plot synopses.

— Peter Carey

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.

— Don DeLillo

I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.

— James Thayer

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

— David Shields

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

— Jami Attenberg

Plot was always secondary in my mind.

— Dan Chaon

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

— Frank Moore Colby

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

— Derek Walcott