Quotes about Plots

Plots are for dead people. Votes: 3

Plots are ... what the writer sees with. Votes: 3

Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret. Votes: 3

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. Votes: 3

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless. Votes: 3

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip. Votes: 3

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head. Votes: 3

In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally. Votes: 3

Spy plots are hard, really hard. Votes: 1

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. Votes: 1

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free. Votes: 1

As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins. Votes: 1

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer. Votes: 1

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots. Votes: 1

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. Votes: 1

American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me. Votes: 1

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings. Votes: 1

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots. Votes: 1

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. Votes: 1

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots. Votes: 1

I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present. Votes: 1

As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives. Votes: 1

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing. Votes: 1

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head. Votes: 1

No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place. Votes: 1

I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there are a lot of things that happen as a result of sin. Votes: 1

There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again - so what makes people keep watching and listening? It's all about the character. Votes: 1

It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in the long labor of perfecting the tools of his art. Yet the work itself need not be explicitly evangelical in its themes and plots. Votes: 1

I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring. Votes: 1

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are. Votes: 1

There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men. Votes: 1

Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty. Votes: 1

Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things. Votes: 1

Real life seems to have no plots. Votes: 0

I like fast plots with things that explode. Votes: 0

He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself. Votes: 0

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right. Votes: 0

I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual. Votes: 0

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories. Votes: 0

All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots. Votes: 0

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me. Votes: 0

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me Votes: 0

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. Votes: 0

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots. Votes: 0

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Votes: 0

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God. Votes: 0

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes. Votes: 0

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it. Votes: 0

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything. Votes: 0

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state. Votes: 0

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills. Votes: 0

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots. Votes: 0

Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions. Votes: 0

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots." Votes: 0

There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do. Votes: 0

My muse is an ungrateful harlot who's abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots. Votes: 0

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come! Votes: 0

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting. Votes: 0

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by. Votes: 0

We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence. Votes: 0

There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart. Votes: 0

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions? Votes: 0

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. Votes: 0

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age. Votes: 0

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else. Votes: 0

I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story. Votes: 0

What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights. Votes: 0

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural. Votes: 0

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before. Votes: 0

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them. Votes: 0

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block. Votes: 0

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want. Votes: 0

I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots. Votes: 0

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills. Votes: 0

One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens. Votes: 0

I hate the word juicy in describing anything: lips, plots, oranges. But especially novels. It feels - icky. Reminds me of saliva. Votes: 0

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up. Votes: 0

For Lebanon to have any future, gotta adopt a resolute policy v/s terrorism. Whoever plots against the land should bear the consequences. Votes: 0

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained. Votes: 0

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right. Votes: 0

I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds. Votes: 0

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention. Votes: 0

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end. Votes: 0

Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings. Votes: 0

Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds. Votes: 0

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other. Votes: 0

We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots. Votes: 0

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them. Votes: 0

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true. Votes: 0

CBS announced they're canceling As The World Turns. Don't worry though, if you're addicted to the twisted plots, the intrigue, the illicit sex, you can still watch golf. Votes: 0

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way. Votes: 0

The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it. Votes: 0

Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing! Votes: 0

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points. Votes: 0

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points. Votes: 0

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening. Votes: 0

From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant so much as they can crave. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death! Votes: 0

A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be able to articulate your concept in a couple of lines. Votes: 0

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing. Votes: 0

The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born. Votes: 0

I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot. Votes: 0

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The famous don't actually have to turn up to their own lives at all. Votes: 0