Plot Quotes

625 quotes by 538 authors

Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against… — Leigh Brackett
Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist. — David Mamet
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its… — Eudora Welty
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.… — E. M. Forster
What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It must express character.… — Elizabeth Bowen
As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable… — Ivy Compton-Burnett
Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and… — Anne Lamott
We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if… — Minnie Bruce Pratt
[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot… — Charles Francis Richter
Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South… — George Washington
Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained. — Grant Morrison
Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one with the vagaries… — Richard Haynes
I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it. — Dorothy Fields
At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at… — Elmore Leonard
The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under… — Larry McDonald
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device. — David Langford
The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation,… — Victor LaValle
The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can… — Tim Wynne-Jones
The characters write the plot. Their natures do. — Norman Rush
Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values… — Andrew Stanton

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