Plot Quotes
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The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third act can be difficult because you can get into a rut in the third act - everybody runs to their Corvette, has a chase, and you catch the bad guy.
Stephen J. Cannell
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The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time.
Heidi Julavits
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I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.
Siegfried Lenz
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
Erica Jong
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But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it.
Nora Raleigh Baskin
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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
Eugene H. Peterson
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Spy plots are hard, really hard.
Rashida Jones
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There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.
Susan Isaacs
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What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
Eudora Welty
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Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.
Cecily von Ziegesar
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I am not an analytical writer. Once I flesh out my characters and decide on the elements of my plot, the story unfolds in my head almost as though it was a movie reel.
Susan Carroll
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My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
John Searles