Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

Walter Kirn

A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me - when I wasn't saying it to her.

Vicki Lawrence

Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.

Rose McIver

Tinker Bell needs a Tinker Bell. She needs someone plotting for her. I certainly think that it's something she wants.

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.

Clive Cussler

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

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 Letterman

Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet.

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.

We can't even plot it on a map.

Barry Hannah

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

Ben Stiller

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

Connie Willis

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

Edgar Bergen

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

William Shakespeare

Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

Caroline B. Cooney

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me

Bryan Fuller

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

Billy Wilder

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

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.

Nicole Kidman

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

Michael Ondaatje

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

John Selden

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

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.

They were intercepted before the plot could reach fruition.

Peter Tork

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

Terence McKenna

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

Len Wiseman

I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.

Liam Neeson

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.

Think about where you want to be in a year or two, then plot out the steps you need to take to get there.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I like fast plots with things that explode.

Mike Figgis

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

Roger Ebert

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.