Bones Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out…

— Caroline Lawrence

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

Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

— Louis Auchincloss

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

Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike…

— Leigh Brackett

“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

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

Character is the plot in many ways

— Junot Diaz

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot…

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Jim Thompson

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

— Daniel Keys Moran