Plot Quotes - Page 6

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

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

No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do more than mark out the little plot of infinity which he intends to cultivate, and thrust in the spade, trusting that the soil may eventually be fruitful and free from weeds so far as the bounds he has set himself extend.

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.

Most of the people who were responsible for 9/11 are now in custody or have been killed. But there are others, and they plot and they plan, and they hope to pull it off again. And while we have to be right 100 percent of the time, they only have to be right once. So there's no way to overreact to that.

I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to me.

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

Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.

When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.

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.

Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.

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

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

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

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.

The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a bit of a roller coaster ride...

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.

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