Plot Quotes

625 quotes by 538 authors

From his style, youâ€™d think Jason Brannon was the dark double of Ray Bradbury. He cares more about character and realism than most writers Iâ€™ve… — Michael Arnzen
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens. — David Corbett
A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate… — James Scott Bell
Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again… — James Scott Bell
The writer asks himself, 'Can I think of a plot that will parallel this? Can I take this work of literature as an example of… — J. V. Cunningham
I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to… — Peter Greenaway
A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass private eye with… — Tim Maleeny
You will be surprised to learn how some very knowing people have misunderstood Plotto. On glancing at it, some of the intelligentia have jumped at… — William Wallace Cook
I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly… — Robert Purvis
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a… — Eric Hoffer
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it. — Robert Greene
God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves. — Eugene H. Peterson
Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time. — Nicholas Sparks
Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say… — Anne Lamott
Alafair Burke's first standalone is a must read!Â You'll lose yourself in this riveting story of Alice Humphrey, a woman whose nightmare begins when she… — Lisa Scottoline
Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot. — Jim Steinmeyer
To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We… — Iyanla Vanzant
When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Life has no plot, why must films or fiction? — Jim Jarmusch
With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga. . . .… — Swami Vivekananda

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