Plots Quotes

126 quotes by 118 authors

I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher,… — Peter Ackroyd
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of… — Iain Banks
As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves… — John O. Brennan
As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins. — Barbara Cartland
Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the… — Thomas Jefferson
As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable… — Ivy Compton-Burnett
Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained. — Grant Morrison
Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one with the vagaries… — Richard Haynes
As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is the autopen. Evidently, the important… — Ann Coulter
Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings. — Bayard Rustin
He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the… — Otto von Bismarck
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything. — Alan Furst
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. — John Dryden
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
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
As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. — Ivy Compton-Burnett
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

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