Plot Quotes

625 quotes by 538 authors

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right. — Ray Davies
They all laughed. I drew their pictures and they asked for copies and I handed them out as if they were my tickets to the… — Pete Hamill
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which… — Peter Maxwell Davies
I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning,… — Dorothy Fields
We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the… — Hu Jintao
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot. — Lasse Hallstrom
I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time,… — Tony Hillerman
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that… — Leslie Jamison
Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want… — Eric Kripke
I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am.… — Gayle King
I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or… — Rachel Kushner
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward. — Sara Zarr
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader… — Sara Zarr
A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is… — Howard Hawks
History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williamsâ€™ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is an absolute triumphâ€”I… — Tilly Bagshawe
I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely… — Colum McCann
I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem. — Zoe Kazan
I think situations are more important than plot and character. — Harry Mathews
Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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