Plot Quotes

625 quotes by 538 authors

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I? — Laurell K. Hamilton
He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being. — Stan Dale
The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots. — Ali Khamenei
We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills. — Janette Turner Hospital
J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an… — Ansen Dibell
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. — Billy Wilder
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms. — Connie Willis
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel… — Chaim Potok
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves,… — Eudora Welty
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar… — James Joyce
As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your… — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words… — Neil Gaiman
In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. — Henry Rollins
The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot. — Frank Moore Colby
Oh what would Rome be without a plot? — Pope Alexander VI
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot. — E. M. Forster
You are here to step into the shoes of UN ambassadors - to draft resolutions, to plot strategy, to negotiate with your allies as well… — Ban Ki-moon
I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot. — Virginia Woolf

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