Plot Quotes

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people...

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on thei...

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off i...

Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there...

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in p...

We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the ...

You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: ...

Character is plot, plot is character.

And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he w...

I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story...

He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, ea...

But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy loopi...

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and...

NOTICEPersons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting t...