Crosses Quote by Leigh Brackett

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

— Robert Olen Butler

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it...

— Erica Jong

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

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

— Jodi Picoult

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

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

— Robert Gregory Browne

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

“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

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

— Mike Judge

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

— Margaret Bechard

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

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

— Jim Thompson