Plot Quote by Thomas Pynchon

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

— Norman Rush

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

— Jim Thompson

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

— Meg Rosoff

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

— Eudora Welty

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.

— Don DeLillo

I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen…

— Howard Hawks

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

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

— Lauren Beukes

When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters…

— Mel Brooks

Real life seems to have no plots.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I hate plots.

— Per Petterson

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

— Renata Adler