Body Quote by Caroline Lawrence

... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there…

— Walter Mosley

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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

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

“Plot is certainly a part of constructing a story. It’s a factor in outlining. But believe it or not, it’s the least important factor.…

— Libbie Hawker

I detest the word plot. I never, never think of plot. I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters; I'll tell…

— Stirling Silliphant

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

Plot comes first. The plot is the archictecture of your novel. You wouldn't build a house without a plan. If I wrote without a…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people…

— Anne Lamott

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

— George Lucas

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

— Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,…

— Anne Enright