Plots Quotes
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He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comforting and lived-in and unchanged.
— Hanya Yanagihara
He who plots revenge must dig two graves.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.
— Lauren Beukes
I like fast plots with things that explode.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
— Eudora Welty
She was the sort of person from whom one would expect to receive warm cookies, not plots.
— Anne Elisabeth Stengl
That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.
— Billy Wilder
I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
— Alex Tabarrok
My muse is an ungrateful harlot who's abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.
— Richelle Mead
The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
— Zhang Yimou
I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.
— Cassandra Clare
People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.
— Kevin Spacey
There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.
— Glen Cook
Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
— Henry Miller
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.
— Agatha Christie
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.
— William Gurnall
He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
— Francis Bacon
The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
— P. J. O'Rourke
All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.
— James N. Frey
He had no big plan for this. He had not prepared for the day when he would be fighting his own work. He had not plotted against his own plots.
— Dean F. Wilson
What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.
— Julie Carmen
We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.
— Sunday Adelaja
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.
— Brooks Atkinson
I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.
— Arthur Bradford
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.
— Anthony Horowitz
Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.
— John Selden
All plots are cliche.
— Jincy Willett
I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.
— JoAnn Ross
Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Spy plots are hard, really hard.
— Rashida Jones
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.
— Grant Morrison
If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Most field trips contain sinister plots.
— Lemony Snicket
Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.
— Glenn Haybittle
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.
— Tobsha Learner
I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.
— Caroline B. Cooney
Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.
— Billy Bob Thornton
Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon's gullet.
— George R R Martin
As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
I would actually write books totally full of nothing BUT kissing scenes, but apparently people like books to have, like, "plots" or whatever.
— Rachel Hawkins
I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.
— Erskine Caldwell
Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.
— Brandon Sanderson
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— Kami Garcia
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— Christopher Paolini
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.
— Kim Harrison
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.
— Sarah Zettel
There are a limited number of plots (some say seven, some say twelve, some say thirty). There is no limit to the number of stories.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.
— Holly Black
The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not
— Richard Baxter
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
— Terri Windling
No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes.
— Randy Alcorn
Lives do not have plots, only biographies do.
— Guy Davenport
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
— Gilbert Murray
From private flood. / Drama of each season / plots doom from above, / yet all allergic reason / moves to our minor love
— Sylvia Plath
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
— Roald Dahl
Oh! think what anxious moments pass betweenThe birth of plots, and their last fatal periods. — Joseph Addison
The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
— Ali Khamenei
I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.
— Caroline B. Cooney
Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.
— Michael Connelly
I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.
— Theresa May
Plots are for dead people.
— Raymond Federman
We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
— Janette Turner Hospital
Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
— Charles Francis Richter
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.
— Marcel Marceau
I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots ... so I have to do something else.
— Karin Fossum
Real life seems to have no plots.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.
— Julian Barnes
When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.
— Paula Hawkins
People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away.
— Terence Winter
But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?
— Ellen Douglas
Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present.
— Lionel Shriver
Life plots elegantly.
— Alice Randall
Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.
— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Maybe more of us should have plots. Let's take them out of books and put them back in life where they belong.
— Jennifer Ball
I think sometimes she lies in bed at night and plots ways to make my life suck.There can be no other explanation. — Sarra Manning
For Lebanon to have any future, gotta adopt a resolute policy v/s terrorism. Whoever plots against the land should bear the consequences.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
It is only the failure of my plots I fear.
— Shulamith Firestone
I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.
— Jami Attenberg
The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
— Edgar Allan Poe
