Plot Quotes

625 quotes by 538 authors

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot… — Gregory Maguire
The character's attitude is more important than plot. — Stephen J. Cannell
Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel. — Marquis de Sade
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me. — Michael Ondaatje
An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy… — Chuck Jones
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in the story writing… — Iris Johansen
THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is jagged with class… — Joshilyn Jackson
Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction. — Jo Nesbo
I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot. — Mark Gatiss
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome
A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response. — Kim Jong Il
I wrote 'Turn Your Radio On' in 1937, and it was published in 1938. At this time radio was relatively new to the rural people,… — Albert E. Brumley
I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy. — Eric Allman
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who… — Jennifer Ellison
A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots. — Rupert Holmes
In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation… — Mike Figgis
I love a life whose plot is simple. — Henry David Thoreau
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention. — Gloria Steinem
Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and… — Paul Valery

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