Plot Quotes

625 quotes by 538 authors

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free. — Theresa May
Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes. — Theresa May
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. — Bryant H. McGill
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive… — Jon Meacham
A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will… — Ralph Merkle
Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip. — Henry Miller
Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary… — Timothy Murphy
I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer. — Liam Neeson
I have a plot, but not much happens. — Howard Nemerov
The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going on a three-day… — Jack Nicklaus
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual… — Anais Nin
If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of… — Jodi Picoult
You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened… — Terry Pratchett
You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did… — Terry Pratchett
There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over… — Jeremy Renner
The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was… — Anne Rice
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. — Charles Francis Richter
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character… — Will Self
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character… — William Shatner

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