Plot Quotes
625 quotes by 538 authors
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I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like…
— David Brin
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I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.
— Grace Paley
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Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity…
— E. M. Forster
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My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white…
— Nalo Hopkinson
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But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.
— Keith Miller
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I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.
— Archibald Cox
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As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
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I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain…
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
— Brad Meltzer
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O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are…
— George Whitefield
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The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I’ve seen in a long…
— L. J. Smith
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Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really great struggle, the…
— William Wallace Cook
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Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice…
— Dean Koontz
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This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.
— Grantland Rice
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Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut. The plot thickens.
— Bill Hicks
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The CIA has a plot...they've used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem...is convincing Hussein...to fly to Dallas.
— Bill Hicks
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I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on…
— Ed McBain
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Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a…
— Gregory Benford
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I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.
— Ted Kooser
Who Wrote These Plot Quotes
538 authors contributed a total of 625 Plot Quotes, led by these top contributors: