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