Plots Quotes
126 Plots quotes by 116 unique authors
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Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary…
— Timothy Murphy
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I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
— Liam Neeson
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There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over…
— Jeremy Renner
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I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
— Charles Francis Richter
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I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
— Alex Tabarrok
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I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's…
— Rufus Wainwright
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The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
— Zhang Yimou
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I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there…
— Anne Graham Lotz
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Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your…
— Maya Angelou
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I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to…
— Margaret Atwood
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All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.
— Don DeLillo
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The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of a father who…
— Ruth Hurmence Green
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Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed…
— Sadegh Hedayat
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Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.
— Holly Black
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Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent…
— John Steinbeck
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She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back…
— Michael Ondaatje
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My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.
— Richelle Mead
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But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work…
— Caitlin Moran
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Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.
— Brandon Sanderson
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I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to…
— Joe Hill
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The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about…
— A A Milne
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I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the significance…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.
— Lauren Beukes
Who Wrote These Plots Quotes
116 authors contributed a total of 126 Plots Quotes, led by these top contributors: