Plot Writing Quotes
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Plot Writing Quotes & Sayings
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The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.
— James N. Frey
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
— Stephen King
Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.
— Patricia Hamill
The characters write the plot. Their natures do.
— Norman Rush
A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.
— Dean Koontz
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
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
— Khaled Hosseini
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
Cooking up ideas and crafting good plot into a unique, natural, stirring taste is like cooking patiently in a charcoal stove.
— Angelica Hopes
When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.
— Adrianne Lee
He comes, he sleeps, he goes. So the plot thickens.
— Shadowlands
Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.
— A.L. Mabry
Plot as such is not a major ingredient in my novels ... it's often better to sail on the unconscious sea.
— Richard Adams
I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.
— Jeff VanderMeer
Find the problem, find the story.
— John Brown
To unlock the writer's block is to keep writing until you can unknot the "not". If you cannot, then put a can in the plot and unwrap it a lot!
— Ana Claudia Antunes
I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.
— Daniel Woodrell
The character's attitude is more important than plot.
— Stephen J. Cannell
I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.
— Virginia Woolf
Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.
— Bailey Vincent
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.
— Peter Temple
If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.
— Sara Sheridan
Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive.
— Sara Sheridan
I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.
— Richard Hell
Focke's razor: Never attribute to plot holes that which is adequately explained by miracles.
— Kevin Focke
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
— Harper Lee
So now you have it. The plot, the whole plot, and nothing but the plot.
— Elizabeth Peters
I wonder if Stephen King ever uses dreams in his writing. You know, as yeast to make the plot rise.
— Stephen King
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