Plot Quotes

625 quotes by 538 authors

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing. — Robert Olen Butler
Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a very clever and… — Karin Slaughter
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is… — Brander Matthews
A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they… — Scott McClellan
You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There… — Whitney M. Young
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself — Alice Hoffman
Dialogue is character and character is plot. — George V
I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this. — James Ellroy
It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in… — Judith Ortiz Cofer
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking up the plots,… — Caroline B. Cooney
I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me — Caroline B. Cooney
The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that… — Scott Turow
Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned… — Tony Grisoni
To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself. — Philippa Gregory
Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden
A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled, enticements, variety, patterning… — Margaret Visser
Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us, indeed, and a… — Vincent Canby
According to the media, trans women were subject to pain and punch lines. Instead of proclaiming that I was not a plot device to be… — Janet Mock
No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise… — Cofer Black
The writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to plot point, like… — Richard North Patterson

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