Character Quote by Madeline Hunter

When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well when it…

— Jay Roach

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from…

— Anonymous

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

— Michael Ondaatje

“Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which "you can't tell what is going to…

— Arnold Bennett

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I…

— James Hillman

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

— Samuel Goldwyn

“plot is not the story, but an Ariadne's thread you follow through a labyrinth of scenes.”

— David Morley

Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the…

— Albert Allen Bartlett

“With different changes but the same plot, sometimes our story has already unfolded. It's just trapped in the pages of ink and paper. God…

— Eric Samuel Timm

Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.

— Nicholas Sparks

Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move forward all…

— Elizabeth Sims

One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular economic and…

— Robert J. Samuelson