Plot Quotes

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PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION. — Aristotle
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it... — Erica Jong
No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my… — Andrew Sean Greer
The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever… — Dorothy Parker
When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories… — Eugene H. Peterson
Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is,… — David Byrne
Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy… — Alan Moore
A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends… — Paulo Coelho
My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that… — Guy Gavriel Kay
The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot. — Alan Moore
All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough for… — Mary Ann Shaffer
If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case… — Ted Dekker
I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of a father who… — Ruth Hurmence Green
Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed… — Sadegh Hedayat
There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known… — Thomas Pynchon
Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them. — Holly Black
Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent… — John Steinbeck
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final… — Frank O'Hara
She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back… — Michael Ondaatje

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