Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. Votes: 3
John L'HeureuxI'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters. Votes: 3
Daniel WoodrellPlot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development. Votes: 3
Tom JohnsonNo good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. Votes: 3
W. H. AudenGrief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end. Votes: 1
Ann HoodHarry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns. Votes: 0
Berkeley Breathed'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns. Votes: 0
Berkeley BreathedUltimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot. Votes: 0
Jim SteinmeyerAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device. Votes: 0
David LangfordGod is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves. Votes: 0
Eugene H. PetersonWhat the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things? Votes: 0
George Villiers, 1st Duke of BuckinghamAnything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling. Votes: 0
Bryan FullerGames, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film. Votes: 0
David DuchovnyMovies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Votes: 0
Harvey FiersteinThe first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president. Votes: 0
Tina BrownStory is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest. Votes: 0
Stephen KingThe poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot... Votes: 0
Julianna BaggottA film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response. Votes: 0
Kim Jong IlBut keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot. Votes: 0
Keith MillerMy stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end. Votes: 0
Barry HannahIt's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv. Votes: 0
James FrancoLocal teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line. Votes: 0
Stewart O'NanThe cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. Votes: 0
Ben StillerThe guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. Votes: 0
Vittorio AlfieriCharacters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel. Votes: 0
Harper LeeI love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot. Votes: 0
Mark GatissThe whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with. Votes: 0
Renata AdlerWith relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. Votes: 0
David ShieldsOne elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonGovernment should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away. Votes: 0
Lyn NofzigerStars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home. Votes: 0
Brian RathboneI have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek. Votes: 0
Alan WattsCharacters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires. Votes: 0
Robert Gregory BrowneNormally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction. Votes: 0
Jo NesboLanguage is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language. Votes: 0
Aimee BenderIn order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen. Votes: 0
Mike JudgeI try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges. Votes: 0
Anita DesaiThe best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself. Votes: 0
Jean de La FontaineNo unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land. Votes: 0
Henry FordSo I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot. Votes: 0
Jeffery DeaverIt takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it. Votes: 0
Matt CharmanI like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning. Votes: 0
Peter TempleLife has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it... Votes: 0
Erica JongI feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature. Votes: 0
Lauren Oliver[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it. Votes: 0
Janet MaslinThere's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot. Votes: 0
Jonathan CarrollSurely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes. Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfThrough all the drama - whether damned or not -Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot. Votes: 0
Richard Brinsley SheridanI always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going. Votes: 0
Meg RosoffI don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way. Votes: 0
Barry HannahBut really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it. Votes: 0
Nora Raleigh BaskinMy goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot. Votes: 0
John SearlesI love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot. Votes: 0
James NortonIf you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau. Votes: 0
Jeff BeckI would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work. Votes: 0
Len WisemanThe more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. Votes: 0
Billy WilderNow I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. Votes: 0
Arthur BremerI begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this. Votes: 0
James EllroyItâs so real." "Most dreams are. It isn't until you wake up that you see all the plot holes. Votes: 0
Becca FitzpatrickI always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. Votes: 0
J. K. RowlingNor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. Votes: 0
OvidI've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not. Votes: 0
EminemA human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHaving a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. Votes: 0
Bryant H. McGillHaving a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. Votes: 0
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