Top Plot Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Plot quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Whitney M. Young
You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.
- Whitney M. Young
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Image of Billy Wilder
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
- Billy Wilder
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Image of Terri Windling
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
- Terri Windling
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Image of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Image of Ted Kooser
I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.
- Ted Kooser
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Image of Nan Fairbrother
Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.
- Nan Fairbrother
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Image of David Shields
Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.
- David Shields
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Image of Cate Marvin
The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always a hard one for me. And I always had this spastic tendency to wrap up a story before I'd seen it the whole way through, a sort of writer's pre-ejaculatory tendency: "The End!"
- Cate Marvin
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Image of Caroline B. Cooney
I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me
- Caroline B. Cooney
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Image of Teresa Nielsen Hayden
Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.
- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
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Image of Gerald Posner
Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.
- Gerald Posner
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Image of Jim Steinmeyer
Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot.
- Jim Steinmeyer
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Image of Graham Nelson
The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.
- Graham Nelson
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Image of Karin Fossum
I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.
- Karin Fossum
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Image of Drew McWeeny
Plot is unimportant. Family is everything, and 'Furious 7' is a blast.
- Drew McWeeny
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Image of Nick Hornby
I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.
- Nick Hornby
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Image of Barry Hannah
My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
- Barry Hannah
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Image of Shirley Hazzard
I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.
- Shirley Hazzard
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Image of Shane Carruth
My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. I saw the core part of the plot. But if I ever take another look at it then I can see that there was some more stuff going on in there that I didn't realize.
- Shane Carruth
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Image of Mardy Grothe
A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.
- Mardy Grothe
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Image of Julianna Baggott
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
- Julianna Baggott
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Image of Jim Jarmusch
Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?
- Jim Jarmusch
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Image of Len Wiseman
I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.
- Len Wiseman
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Image of Matt Charman
It takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it.
- Matt Charman
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Image of Arthur Bradford
I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.
- Arthur Bradford
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Image of Eudora Welty
Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
- Eudora Welty
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Image of Dorothy Parker
[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.
- Dorothy Parker
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Image of Eugene H. Peterson
When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
- Eugene H. Peterson
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Image of Ayn Rand
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Eugene H. Peterson
God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
- Eugene H. Peterson
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Image of Paolo Bacigalupi
I like fast plots with things that explode.
- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Image of John Selden
Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.
- John Selden
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Image of Kurt Vonnegut
I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.
- Kurt Vonnegut
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Image of David Byrne
Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is, because I'm living my life and not always reflecting on it, but as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometimes random wandering as having a plot, a purpose guided by some underlying story.
- David Byrne
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Image of Cassandra Clare
Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story
- Cassandra Clare
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Image of Jack Canfield
I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.
- Jack Canfield
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Image of Ray Davies
Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.
- Ray Davies
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Image of Don DeLillo
Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.
- Don DeLillo
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Image of Anne Enright
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.
- Anne Enright
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Image of David Duchovny
Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.
- David Duchovny
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Image of Roger Ebert
I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don't remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me.
- Roger Ebert
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Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Image of E. M. Forster
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.
- E. M. Forster
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Image of Graham Greene
The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
- Graham Greene
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Image of Margaret Atwood
Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.
- Margaret Atwood
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Image of Heidi Julavits
I don't usually read my reviews. I've noticed older reviewers are much more bothered by the plot complications. Younger reviews don't seem to be bothered by the complications at all.
- Heidi Julavits
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Image of James Joyce
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
- James Joyce
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Image of Erica Jong
Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
- Erica Jong
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Image of Bryan Fuller
Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.
- Bryan Fuller
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