Plot Quotes

I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.

It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that order. The making good and striking out part I liked. The rest would just be bonus.

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

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.

Your life will have chapters, complete with crazy characters, villains and a plot you can't even imagine as you sit here today. It's a lot like a Scooby Doo episode.

I really felt sometimes like I was physically pulling the plot, and it was heavy. I'm sure it didn't look great that I was going into my dressing room at lunch.

In a way, this kind of insight or recognition often permeates the way I think of character, how I plot action, and the way in which I use imagery, seeing binaries as false.

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.

I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.

The character's attitude is more important than plot.

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets.

When I'm at the premiere and I see the film in its entirety, I forget plot, I forget the story, I forget what my character goes through, because I really do just let it go.

If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case he would be the dead victim of a horrible plot

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character moments to happen. It was always meant to have these two perspectives.

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker.

I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story.

My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.

When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

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

This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, . . . This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.

There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.

If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.

Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.

A novel rough draft is like bread dough

I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.

You need a revolution in your life so as to know the plot of the devil and discover the thoughts of the Lord toward you

The night it fallsThe stars shine throughThe inky blackThat is the cueFor plot demandsThat dreams be sownThe fantasies I have aloneThe words come fastThey flow like wineI am the midnight writer...

Focke's razor: Never attribute to plot holes that which is adequately explained by miracles.

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.