Plot Quotes

625 quotes by 538 authors

I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where… — Flannery O'Connor
In 'Law & Order,' your main job is to stay out of the way of the plot. On another show you'd receive your script and… — Jeremy Sisto
I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action… — Maggie Stiefvater
I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11… — Amy Waldman
To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff -… — Billy West
I feel like I know how to write plot. — Mike White
There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real… — Jessica Pare
My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand… — Juliet Marillier
I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do. — Erskine Caldwell
[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the… — Robert Benchley
The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot. — Sun Tzu
The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot. — James N. Frey
It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to… — James N. Frey
... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are… — Walter Mosley
I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played around with the… — Elizabeth Sims
With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of… — Terry Eagleton
I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary… — John Grisham
I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I… — Judy Blume
So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot… — Libba Bray

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