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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

A good plot should have a strong middle and a spectacular end. But under no circumstances should it have a beginning. — A.M. Dean

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

A poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses, — Aristotle.

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

I mean, Hell or no hell, all horror plots are overdone, over cooked, and smelling. — Cameron Jace

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

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. — Don DeLillo

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

Dickens' plots are his most discardable properties, and often have to be pushed aside to let the strange poetry of his imagination emerge. — John Carey

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state. — John Selden

All plots are cliche. — Jincy Willett

Mobile phones would have wrecked the plots of most of Shakespeare's plays. — Jackie French

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

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come! — Francine Pascal

As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins. — Barbara Cartland

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

It seems to me that more plots have been imagined than really exist. — Umberto Eco

best plots, like — Kami Garcia

Old Friend The Witch and the Werecat Of Reading and Plots Thieves in the Castle A Costly Mistake Vision of Perfection — 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

He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself. — Aesop

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

All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots. — Margaret Weis

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots. — Rupert Holmes

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 between
The 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

Satan didn't lose any of his beguiling ways when he became the fallen prince. He took his charm, his subtleties, and his clever plots to use on us. — Billy Graham

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. — Wendy Cope

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything. — Alan Furst

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

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. — John Dryden

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

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right. — Ray Davies

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. — Ovid

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

All fiction boils down to two plots: Either a stranger comes to town or someone goes on a trip. — Parker Bauer

Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win. — Jeffrey Gitomer