Quotes of: Plot Keyword

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

Henry Miller

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

'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.

Jesse L. Martin

My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.

John Searles

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.

Walter Kirn

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

Aaron Eckhart

John Twist: Tell you what. We got us a family plot. He's goin' in it.

Brokeback Mountain

Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.

Arthur Bremer

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

Anita Desai

A good plot should have a strong middle and a spectacular end. But under no circumstances should it have a beginning.

A.M. Dean

As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

Barbara Cartland

Mohammed al-Qahtani was not alleged to be a leader of the Sept. 11 plot. He was not trained as a pilot. If he was involved, he was one of the 'muscle' hijackers.

Bill Dedman

Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.

Love

Colonel Rolland: [dictating a letter] The plot describes above constitutes, in my view, the most dangerous single conception that the terrorists could possibly have devised to endanger the life of President De Gaulle. If the plot exists as described,...

The Day of the Jackal

To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.

The Dance of Character and Plot

Agony's Plot A zephyr skimmed across my creamy skin gently kissing where the sun had been....

Enigmatic Evolution

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

William Shatner

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

The Marriage Plot

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

The Marriage Plot

When he picked out the [gravesite] plot, my father had joked that he was moving, at last, to the suburbs.

The Scientists: A Family Romance

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

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft