Plot Quotes

625 quotes by 538 authors

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. — Phaedrus
Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader… — Thorne Smith
Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of… — Elizabeth George
Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. — Arthur Bremer
In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen. — Mike Judge
I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that. — John Eaton
I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted to stay. It… — Caroline Dhavernas
In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one… — Margaret Weis
Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists… — Jim Ryun
The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard, very… — Kristin Davis
Giving consumers the choice of having it all in one big bite means different viewers are in many different places in the book, making it… — Michael K. Powell
I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible,… — Lisa Scottoline
My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as most, rather more… — Graham Joyce
The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy… — Peter Segal
Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a blank computer screen… — Ricky Schroder
In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward. — Maria Semple
Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line. — Stewart O'Nan
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature. — Lauren Oliver
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny… — A. S. Byatt
There are few films where you have women really driving the plot. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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