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It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on. — Carol Anshaw

The story is not in the plot but in the telling. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time. — Nicholas Sparks

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. — Harvey Fierstein

Use plot to buttress a story. — Gayle Lynds

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot. — Keith Miller

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper. — Nema Al-Araby

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest. — Stephen King

I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening. — Rachel Kushner

Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story — Cassandra Clare

If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

The biggest twist in fiction might be a story ending exactly how you thought it would. — Kevin Focke

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

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot. — E. M. Forster

'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot. — Robert Gottlieb

This book has too much plot and not enough story. — Samuel Goldwyn

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. — William Shatner

plot is not the story, but an Ariadne's thread you follow through a labyrinth of scenes. — David Morley

Find the problem, find the story. — John Brown

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot. — George Balanchine

Once upon a time she had felt trapped inside her story with its familiar characters and predictable plot. Now she felt locked out of it. — Roderick Townley

I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when I'm sitting there trying to plot. — Pamela Clare

The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story or the dream. — Isabel Allende

A story always tells the truth about the true intention of the storyteller, regardless of the plot." - Peter Arpesella — Peter Arpesella

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me. — Michael Ondaatje

My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband. — Ruta Sepetys

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself. — Alice Hoffman

SPOILER ALERT: EVERYONE FALLS IN LOVE & DIES! — Amy King

It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story. — Rachel Kushner

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven
by the characters' wants and desires. — Robert Gregory Browne

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is — Nancy Kress

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature. — Teresa Nielsen Hayden

The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes. — Peter Baynham

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens. — David Corbett

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character. — David Levithan

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

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story? — James Hillman

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

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

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story. — Charles Baxter

Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot. — Jeff VanderMeer

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story. — Nan Fairbrother

plot is how the dramatic events (action) in a story change and/or transform the main character (emotion) over time in a meaningful way (theme). — Martha Alderson

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

Christmas is not a story birthed of a humanized god for it simply doesn't fit into the rubric of such an emaciated plot. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges. — Anita Desai

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't. — Ray McKinnon

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. — Ernest Gaines

I begin by writing paragraphs that don't have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. — Grace Paley

A story that has nothing but action and plot is a pretty poor affair; and some great stories have neither. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can. — Alexis Denisof