Plot Quotes
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The characters write the plot. Their natures do.
Norman Rush
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
Erica Jong
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I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
Tony Hillerman
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I think situations are more important than plot and character.
Harry Mathews
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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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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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What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
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Spy plots are hard, really hard.
Rashida Jones
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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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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
Eugene H. Peterson
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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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My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
John Searles
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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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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
Eudora Welty