Action Quote by Dean Koontz

Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.

— Ali Wong

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I was never conscious of my screenplays having any acts. It's all bullshit.

— John Milius

Writers are not meant for action.

— Manuel Puig

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

— David Shields

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

To me, action has to come from the plot.

— Farhan Akhtar

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

— Paul Schrader

“Sooooooooo much literary fiction I get in the old query inbox is plotless. It's just a character musing about the vagaries and eccentricities of…

— Nathan Bransford literary agent

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of…

— Horace Walpole

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

— Mike Judge