Action Quote by Denise Mina

Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work…

— H. P. Lovecraft

When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters…

— Mel Brooks

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence…

— Elizabeth George

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of…

— Richard Linklater

I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

— Patrick deWitt

We don't experience our lives as plots. If I asked you to tell me what your last week was like, you're not really gonna…

— Teju Cole

I detest the word plot. I never, never think of plot. I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters; I'll tell…

— Stirling Silliphant

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

— Meg Rosoff

The plot is very important because writers have to play fair with their readers, but no one would care about the plot if the…

— Karin Slaughter

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when…

— Judy Blume

Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose…

— Lynn Coady

“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people…

— Anne Lamott