Plot Quotes · Page 9

“So now you have it. The plot, the whole plot, and nothing but the plot.”

— Elizabeth Peters

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

— Kim Jong Il

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier,…

— Nicolas Roeg

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

— Bryan Fuller

“The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

— Joseph Jacobs

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

— Nancy Gibbs

I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film.

— Samuel L. Jackson

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the…

— Terry Pratchett

Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the…

— Brian Selznick

Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that…

— Jon Meacham

The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people,…

— Julia Gillard

When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God…

— Anonymous

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information…

— Pia Zadora

“To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the…

— C.S. Lewis

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions…

— Emily Susan Rapp

I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much…

— Terry Teachout

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The past record of man is burdened with accounts of assasinations, secret combines, palace plots and betrayals in war. But in spite…

— G. Edward Griffin

What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other…

— Peter Greenaway

I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art…

— Vito Acconci

With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process…

— George Saunders

Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality…

— George Washington

Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

— Patrick Rothfuss

There's a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman, and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I…

— John F. Kennedy

“What truly matters isn’t your feelings or even those of your characters—it’s the emotional experience of your audience.”

— Will Raywood

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

— Gloria Steinem

“Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer…

— Bailey Vincent

I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and…

— Sarah Zettel

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

— David Corbett

Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul.

— Spencer W. Kimball

I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come…

— Siegfried Lenz

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a…

— E. M. Forster

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

— Meg Rosoff

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to…

— Alan Lightman

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

— Berkeley Breathed

In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

— George Meredith

It's hard to plan and plot attacks against America if you're on the run, and that's exactly what our brave professionals are…

— George W. Bush

I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.

— Anonymous