Plot Quotes · Page 7

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

— Thomas Steinbeck

Sometimes I'll feel down and realise it's because of a depressing plot.

— June Brown

Motivation is the power behind plot.

— Elizabeth Moon

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.

— Vanna Bonta

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

— Samuel Goldwyn

Oh what would Rome be without a plot?

— Pope Alexander VI

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

— Aristotle

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

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

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

— Dave Barry

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

— Holly Black

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

— Dean Koontz

Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal…

— Noah Hawley

If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions…

— John Ashbery

You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers…

— Victor Levin

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

40 Words for Sorrow is brilliant-one of the finest crime novels I've ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and…

— Jonathan Kellerman

I really try to plot in a fearless fashion. I try not to care about not knowing the answer before I get…

— Courtney A. Kemp

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that…

— Umberto Eco

There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some…

— Jesse Williams

He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for…

— Jeff Kinney

A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two…

— Greg Iles

I always feel funny when I don't reveal things, especially to you [the press], who have supported us so much and are…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find…

— Alexis Denisof

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

— Harvey Fierstein

There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.

— P. J. O'Rourke

What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.

— Julie Carmen

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for…

— Michael Ondaatje

I write my scripts on a whim, without worrying about plot points and graphs.

— Gautham Menon

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it...

— Erica Jong

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

— Julianna Baggott