Plot Quotes

• Plot is character revealed by action.

  

  Aristotle
  • Character
  • Action
  • Plot

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

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Time
  • Story
  • Working

• In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Moving
  • Spring
  • Winter

• I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Character

• I am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can't go to work without a challenge. I want to do films that drive me, films in which I am a part of the main plot.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Work
  • Films
  • Roles

• I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Different
  • Way
  • Care

• I feel like I know how to write plot.

  

  Mike White
  • Writing
  • Knows
  • Plot

• Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • History
  • Desire
  • Deep

• Merci beaucoup. This is our last song now, (Dom - Thank you), Thank you very much indeed. We're doing a tour, coming back in.. ahh, get a grip. (Chris - It's Gone) Lost the plot. I've lost the plot, I've lost the fucking plot mate. what? What? Say it. You wanna say something? (Dom - No) Say something quick. I never know what to say in case you hadn't noticed. I never know what to say, just make a dick of myself everytime. (Dom - Anyway, this song is called Bliss, bye bye)

  

  Matt Bellamy Muse
  • Grip
  • Every Time
  • Last Song

• My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Language
  • Stories
  • Plot

• Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Heart
  • Film
  • Favorite

• A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • Story
  • Surprise

• Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!

  

  Sadegh Hedayat
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Death

• Everyone must hoe his plot daily.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Plot
  • Hoe

• Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Description
  • Plot
  • Grades

• I try to weave a secret into each plot. It's the thread that holds the rest of the story fabric together. In fact, it's the reason for the story. I hint at the secret early on. Immediately I want the reader to get the feeling that something here isn't quite right. It helps maintain the suspense if a puzzling element is introduced in the first few pages of the book, but the answer isn't revealed until the final ones. Hopefully, readers want to know what the heck is really going on, and it's the desire to find out that keeps them turning pages.

  

  Sandra Brown
  • Secret
  • Plot
  • Weave

• Enjoy the present, plot the progress, you'll still reach the goal.

  

  Debra Searle
  • Progress
  • Goal
  • Enjoy

• This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Elements
  • Detectives

• The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Acting
  • Intelligent
  • Plot

• I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Rhythm
  • Plot

• This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Earth
  • Blessed
  • England

• The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

  

  Vittorio Alfieri
  • Guilty
  • Crime
  • Punishment

• Motivation is the power behind plot.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Power
  • motivation
  • Behinds

• I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

  

  Len Wein
  • Important
  • Difference
  • Plot

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