Plot Quotes · Page 8

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

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

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

I think people got in touch with me either knowing my work, or probably more frequently just knowing a plot or sort…

— Mark Leyner

You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot…

— Whitney M. Young

There is no better test of character than when you're tossed into crisis. That's when we see one's true colors shine through.…

— Tess Gerritsen

The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every…

— Victor LaValle

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

People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to…

— Guy Claxton

I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have…

— Tony Kushner

Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call…

— Kage Baker

What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It…

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

“The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.”

— Sara Sheridan

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

— Aaron Eckhart

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

— Charles Dudley Warner

I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully…

— Kim Harrison

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it…

— Don DeLillo

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

— Brad Meltzer

There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The quality of this novel is the way the plot is treated and not the plot itself.

— Anonymous

When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.

— Tom Rickman

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

— Margaret Atwood

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get…

— Grant Morrison

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

— Aimee Bender

“...my novels are like life - I never know where they're going until I get to the end...”

— John Geddes A Familiar Rain

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

— Margaret Bechard