Plot Quotes

625 quotes by 538 authors

Democrats had a secret meeting in Reid's office on Halloween night at 6:15 and they hatched this plot, ... They said the only way they… — George Stephanopoulos
...If you look at the attached plot you will see that the land also shows the 1940s warming blip (as I'm sure you know). So,… — Tom Wigley
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. — John L'Heureux
Open Secret boasts a nifty plot and, in Coroner Fortin, a fascinating protagonist who will likely be around for a long time. Deryn Collier is… — Giles Blunt
Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires. — Margaret Bechard
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are… — John Irving
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who… — Susan Jacoby
To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. — John Dryden
I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in… — Chad Harbach
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on… — Anne Tyler
Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shopâ€¦ suddenly a splendid idea comes… — Agatha Christie
Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off. — Clive Cussler
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. — Vittorio Alfieri
I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I… — Diana Gabaldon
I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's… — Christopher Darden
I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite… — Michael Connelly
Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only… — Laurell K. Hamilton
The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a… — Charles Stross

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