Plot Quote by Eudora Welty

There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.

— Jim Thompson

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.

— Lauren Beukes

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

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

— Norman Rush

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

— David Shields

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 is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

— Erica Jong

plot is character in action.

— Maren Elwood

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 much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.

— Eleanor Catton

The quality of this novel is the way the plot is treated and not the plot itself.

— Anonymous

“All plots are cliche.”

— Jincy Willett