Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Beck

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

Eugene H. Peterson

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

Eudora Welty

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

Graham Greene

The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?

Howard Nemerov

I have a plot, but not much happens.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

Nancy Kress

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

Karin Fossum

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

Alice McDermott

I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.

Maira Kalman

I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning - you know, 'beginning, middle and end.'

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.

Eleanor Catton

The challenge that I set for myself was to see whether or not plot and structure could coexist, and why it was that we had to always privilege one above the other.

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.

Buster Keaton

You could write the whole plot on a postcard. We do the rest.

Julia Gillard

The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

Jim Jarmusch

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

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.

Marshall McLuhan

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.