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The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
— Graham Greene
A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.
— Kim Jong Il
Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot.
— Donald Trump
Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.
— Robert J. Sawyer
There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.
— Patrice Nganang
Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.
— Scott Westerfeld
In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.
— Jesse Michaels
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
What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?
— Theresa Villiers
God is the creator of all good plot twists!
— Shannon L. Alder
Through all the drama - whether damned or not -Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
— Eudora Welty
i love the book called the princess plot and its a good book because its about how its mysterys from other peeps...
— Kristen Boie
The biggest twist in fiction might be a story ending exactly how you thought it would.
— Kevin Focke
I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.
— Len Wiseman
It's the feelings or emotions that you experience while you're reading a book that you remember, not the details that make up the plot.
— Frederick Dillen
Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.
— Margaret Bechard
People leave. They die. Their dwellings crumble. That's the storyline, the only plot there will ever be.
— Blake Crouch
Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting.
— Kathryn Harrison
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
— Jeffery Deaver
This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn't chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.
— Frank Moore Colby
I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana.
— Evel Knievel
Men may plot and plan and scheme, but they had best pray as well, for no plan ever made by man has ever withstood the whims of the gods above.
— George R R Martin
Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.
— Virginia Woolf
Christ in a Pinata' how have I over complicated the plot?
— Scott Parker
The villain drives the plot.
— Gayle Lynds
What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
— George Villiers
When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?
— Laurell K. Hamilton
In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.
— Jim Ratcliffe
The Deeper Magic always seemed to come up when Ember didn't feel like doing something, or needed to close a plot hole.
— Lev Grossman
Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot - but not twice.
— Diana Gabaldon
When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
— Raymond Chandler
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[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.
— Dorothy Parker
I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.
— Dorothy Fields
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
— Patrick DeWitt
A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.
— Justin Swapp
There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.
— Geoffrey S. Fletcher
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
Plot as such is not a major ingredient in my novels ... it's often better to sail on the unconscious sea.
— Richard Adams
Next time we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren! — Leonard Leventon
The plot thickens.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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A story always tells the truth about the true intention of the storyteller, regardless of the plot." - Peter Arpesella
— Peter Arpesella
Life is not a plot; it's in the details.
— Jodi Picoult
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
At that point only two things were clear to me: first, that the plot had to move readers as much as it moved me;
— Antonio Garrido
Veronique and Dylan having the mother of all arguments. I mean, it had a plot and a subplot and several walk-on parts ...
— Sarra Manning
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
Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.
— Victor LaValle
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
Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home.
— Brian Rathbone
The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer.
— Shannon L. Alder
Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.
— Lyn Nofziger
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When he picked out the [gravesite] plot, my father had joked that he was moving, at last, to the suburbs.
— Marco Roth
I wonder if Stephen King ever uses dreams in his writing. You know, as yeast to make the plot rise.
— Stephen King
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
There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
— Jonathan Carroll
Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.
— Terry Pratchett
How can a prisoner plot his escape if he doesn't believe a world exists outside the prison walls?
— Skye Jethani
Time is the metre, memory the only plot.
— Derek Walcott
There was word that a Secret Service man and a Dallas policeman were dead - so the plot must be widespread.
— Jim Bishop
It's so real.""Most dreams are. It isn't until you wake up that you see all the plot holes. — Becca Fitzpatrick
The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death.The rest are actors who want me to stay and further the plot. — Adrienne Rich
This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.
— Grantland Rice
But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?
— Shannon Hale
I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.
— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
You must use your heart to decide the destination, but use your head to plot the journey.
— Amish Tripathi
I'm not saying the plot doesn't have holes.
— Vernon D. Burns
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.
— David Corbett
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
— Khaled Hosseini
The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.
— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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 begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.
— James Ellroy
The characters write the plot. Their natures do.
— Norman Rush
