Plot Quotes

I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me

Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story

I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep track of plot threads, characters, and so on).

Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.

Plot was always secondary in my mind.

When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do.

The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in and plunge too far.

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.

Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet.

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.

With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

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

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

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

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot.

I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.

[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.

Plot is unimportant. Family is everything, and 'Furious 7' is a blast.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.

I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.

In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.

Motivation is the power behind plot.

I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.

I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.

What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll--a soft roll, not a hard roll--and one cup of cocoa; any attempt to alter this menu I regarded as a plot to poison me.

Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.