Top 255 Plots Quotes & Sayings

My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.

He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.

Plots are for dead people.

The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

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

There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.

Those are my favorite kinds of movies, where the plots are quite small and character-driven.

I hate plots.

I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.

Some artists, such as Jack Kirby, need no plot at all. I mean I'll just say to Jack, "Let's let the next villain be Dr. Doom" ... or I may not even say that. He may tell me. And then he goes home and does it. He's so good at plots, I'm sure he's a thousand times better than I. He just makes up the plots for these stories. All I do is a little editing ... I may tell him that he's gone too far in one direction or another. Of course, occasionally I'll give him a plot, but we're practically both the writers on the things.

Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

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

I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

Real life seems to have no plots.

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these plots composed only about 2% of the agricultural lands in the Soviet Union, they produced 25% of the food! When Soviets kept the wealth they created, they produced almost 16 times more than when it was taken from them at gunpoint, if necessary!

Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

I like fast plots with things that explode.

I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.

The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

I used to watch 'EastEnders' till the plots got ridiculous.

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

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

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

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

While love stories at the end of the day, honestly speaking, do not vary a lot in their plots, it is their treatment that separates one from the other.

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.

If the songs were in lumps, then you would expect to understand what was going on in the plot. Which is not a realistic goal. And also the instrumentation is different for every show, so it's more varied sonically. And people are free to make up their own plots, of course. There are pretty dense and complicated plots, and they're simple songs.

As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. That’s all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.

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

I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.

I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.

Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

The Indian audience is getting exposed to world cinema and realising the power of unique plots and distinct characters.

People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

I am not opposed to government efforts to stop terrorist plots. We are still seared by the memory of 9/11, and we should be.

All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.