Plot Quotes

625 quotes by 538 authors

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us. — Vanna Bonta
In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse… — Michael Chekhov
Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot. — George Balanchine
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we… — Walter Inglis Anderson
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot. — Rachel Lambert Mellon
I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes… — Joe Abercrombie
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or… — Douglas Coupland
There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments.… — Gagan Narang
After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in plot-building. I jot… — Ashwin Sanghi
Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has… — Terry Pratchett
I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana. — Evel Knievel
My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist… — John Irving
I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning. — Peter Temple
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language. — Aimee Bender
I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to… — Kami Garcia
Plot makes the character just as history makes the man. — Thomas Steinbeck
And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out. — Greg Iles
I never make a note of anything; I never even write a plot down. — Andrew Scott
I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot,… — Suzanne Collins

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