Plot Quotes

625 quotes by 538 authors

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't… — Jessica Stern
Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plotâ€”but not twice. — Diana Gabaldon
But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows,… — Joyce Carol Oates
This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature… — William Shakespeare
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of… — Mario Vargas Llosa
They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up. — Thomas Pynchon
I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody,… — Kathryn Stockett
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Oâ€™er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair,… — Jasper Fforde
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. — Ray Bradbury
The problem with being grounded is it gives you a whole lot of unavoidable time to think. NOt even pulling weeds can take away your… — Ellen Hopkins
I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character. — David Levithan
The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance. — Lucy Grealy
The story is not in the plot but in the telling. — Ursula K. Le Guin
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even… — C.S. Lewis
[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dÃ©nouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dÃ©nouement constantly… — Edgar Allan Poe
My muse is an ungrateful harlot whoâ€™s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots. — Richelle Mead
Life is not a plot; it's in the details. — Jodi Picoult
Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story — Cassandra Clare
But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. — Margaret Atwood
I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite… — John Waters

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