Plot Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

“The thick plottens.”

— Karen Rae Levine

“That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.”

— Billy Wilder

“All plots are cliche.”

— Jincy Willett

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

— Elizabeth Peters

“If you spend enough time with your characters, plot simply happens.”

— Chris Baty

“Everything is some kind of a plot, man.”

— Thomas Pynchon

“A good plot is like a well-crafted puzzle. Each piece is vital to the bigger picture, connecting to each other to tell the larger…

— Janice Hardy

“The character drives the plot, and the plot molds the character’s arc. They cannot work independently.”

— K.M. Weiland

“It is only the failure of my plots I fear.”

— Shulamith Firestone

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

“Maybe more of us should have plots. Let's take them out of books and put them back in life where they belong.”

— Jennifer Ball

“This means the literary effect is not the main concern here; the author is more concerned with plot. And that plot must be relatively…

— Stella Gibbons