Bones Quote by Louis Auchincloss

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

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

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

— Jim Thompson

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

— Anonymous

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

— Jodi Picoult

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing…

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

— Erica Jong

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

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

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

— Mike Judge

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

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

— Jean de La Fontaine