Plot Quote by Eudora Welty Download Open image “Plots are ... what the writer sees with.” — Eudora Welty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Plot Writing
There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting. — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things. — David Shields Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The quality of this novel is the way the plot is treated and not the plot itself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“When somebody, no matter who, gives everything, it makes people feel ashamed for him.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing, once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Children were allowed to go without chaperone… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“At the sting in her eyes, she remembered for him that there must be no tears in his.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be ready, to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“When one of us (children) caught measles or whooping cough and we were isolated in bad upstairs, we wrote notes to each other perhaps… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed tend to make the world look… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Steve [King] has been incredibly supportive. He's also really good about getting back to me when I have questions about plot or characterization. — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character… — Ti West Copy Share Image
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
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