Plots Quotes

126 Plots quotes by 116 unique authors

It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the… — Michael O'Brien
The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots. — P.J. O'Rourke
People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away. — Terence Winter
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science,… — Jill Lepore
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention. — Sophie Hannah
I hate plots. — Per Petterson
People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want. — Kevin Spacey
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at… — Kate Bernheimer
American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me. — Siri Hustvedt
Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. — Charles Francis Richter
The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did… — John Sherman Cooper
All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots. — Margaret Weis
I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings. — Caroline B. Cooney
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. — Gilbert Murray
There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and… — Belle Boyd
Statesman all over, in plots famous grown, He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone. — Charles Churchill
Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers; Fitted… — John Keats
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before. — Terri Windling
Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block. — Billy Bob Thornton
The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't… — Peter Tork
He is responsible because of the conspiracy and the plots for all that happened to the Jewish people-from the shores of the Arctic Ocean to… — Gideon Hausner
A notebook can be a clearing in the forest of your life, a place where you can be alone and content as you play with… — Unknown Author
I'm a hustla using mind with muscle, putting together plots and schemes like the pieces of a puzzle. — Paul Wall
He plots shows like robberies, in and out, 123 nobodies pleased, run the cash and you wont get a wet sweatshirt, the mic is the… — MF Doom
He prepares evil for himself who plots mischief for others. — Latin Proverb

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