Plot Quotes
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I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!
Judy Blume -
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'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
Sara Zarr -
I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes.
John Whitney "Whit" Stillman -
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 -
What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham -
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 -
God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
Eugene H. Peterson
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My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
John Searles -
Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
Erica Jong -
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 -
There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.
Susan Isaacs -
Spy plots are hard, really hard.
Rashida Jones -
Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
Eudora Welty