Best Quote by Brian Selznick

“To those of us who pride ourselves on being “informal,” I’d encourage us to consider what story we could possibly be telling without form.…

— Sarah Arthur

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

— Vanna Bonta

I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a…

— Clive Cussler

Anytime I feel like I am beginning to explain the plot or characters too much my stomach churns. I like stories that let the…

— Charles Forsman

“before a dream has a plot, characters, or setting, it gets assigned an emotion.”

— Sheenah Hankin

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of…

— Richard Linklater

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which…

— Dorothy Parker

“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come…

— Aristotle

An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players.…

— Chuck Jones

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence…

— Elizabeth George

But I'm a fairly mechanical worker - I tend not to think about themes so much as plot. I want to get the feeling…

— Brian Selznick

In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up…

— Albert Camus