Plot Quotes

625 quotes by 538 authors

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high… — Umberto Eco
In 'Zombieland,' it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn't matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was… — Jesse Eisenberg
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. — Harvey Fierstein
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot. — E. M. Forster
A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos… — Mark Haddon
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the… — Mark Haddon
First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a… — Robert Harris
I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping… — Patricia Heaton
Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end. — Ann Hood
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end. — Anthony Horowitz
I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my… — Jim Jarmusch
Spy plots are hard, really hard. — Rashida Jones
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they… — Barbara Kingsolver
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is… — Camilla Lackberg
I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces. — Spike Lee
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall… — A J Liebling
Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot. — George Lucas
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard. — David Mamet
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels… — Hilary Mantel
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. — Marcel Marceau

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