Plot Quotes

625 quotes by 538 authors

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do… — Tom Selleck
Donâ€™t sit down in the middle of the woods. If youâ€™re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong.… — Margaret Atwood
Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has it all: great… — Michael J. Sullivan
Knowing Chris Bennett's Writing as I do, I expected Only Superhuman to have an imaginative plot and a compelling superheroine in Emry Blair. What I… — Mike W. Barr
Did you ever see Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke? That's what happens if you really smoke weed and make a movie. You get two… — James Franco
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. — Edgar Bergen
CBS announced they're canceling As The World Turns. Don't worry though, if you're addicted to the twisted plots, the intrigue, the illicit sex, you can… — Craig Ferguson
If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's… — Penn Jillette
Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies. — Scott Westerfeld
This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't… — Graham Nelson
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, and such unsightly… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot,… — Gary Shteyngart
Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against the frenzied plots for revenge by the imperialists and their running dogs.… — Mao Zedong
I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like if they hadn't… — Rita Dove
I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away… — Larry Gelbart
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . .… — Alan Ayckbourn
I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write another draft to… — Richard Greenberg
Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the… — David Mamet
So somehow, things that seem extraneous to the play in reality are not. The scene lasts 37 minutes, and you only need 12 minutes of… — August Wilson
Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several… — Thomas Brooks

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538 authors contributed a total of 625 Plot Quotes, led by these top contributors: