Quotessence
Home / Topics / Plot Quotes

Plot Quotes

Browse 1030 quotes about Plot.

Related topics

CharacterStoriesWritingIfsThinkingKnowsNovelPeopleBookWayWantWorldFictionLinesIdeasHappensFirstsNeedsShouldWellsEndsRealSeemsTryingActionMenTwoFeelsFilmPlayHardSometimesWholeI CanPagesSceneHumansLiteratureReaderMatterMovingYearsDoeImportantInterestingLittlesLongMeanNarrativeDialogueMadeAudienceBigsEnoughGivingShowsKindMindPiecesThemeTurnsDevelopmentHas BeensTogetherTwistsAbleCarePlansStillsStructureThreeUseElementsGuyMayMightArtBelieveDevicesDrivenFiguresLandPlot LinesReadingRealityRememberTermActorsCertainFunHandsLanguageLooksMomentsProblemReasonScriptsSituationStrongStuffmore

Plot Quotes

“Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the only thing that's going on. . . . Character is nothing other than action, and character-driven means The plot stinks, and you'd better hope the star is popular enough to open the movie in spite of it.”

KnowsWantMeanEnoughCharacterHappensActionFilmNextStarsAudienceStudiosDrivenCraftsSpitePlotExecutivesStink
Author:David Mamet
Create image

“I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of four different guys I knew growing up. Patsy , the waitress, is a mix of about three different people. I like doing it that way. I start with the characters, as opposed to plot, location, or some visual element. I write more by ear than by eye. I always work on the different sound of each character, trying to make sure each has a specific voice and speech pattern, which some writers could care less about.”

PeopleKnowsMenWayWritingTryingDifferentCharacterEyeCareGuyThreeSoundSidesVoiceGrowing UpFourGrowingPlayerSpeechElementsEarsPatternsCraftsVisualsPlotLocationDifferent PeoplesTrumpetsWaitressCompositesCould Care LessDifferent Guys
Author:Warren Leight
Create image

“I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages of notes. . . . I was so prepared that the script seemed inevitable. It was almost all there. I could almost collate it from my notes. The story line, the rather tenuous plot we have, seemed to work out itself. It was a very helpful way to write, and it wasn't so scary. I wasn't starting with a completely blank page.”

WayWritingStoriesLinesScenePagesDown AndNotesPreparedStartingScriptsWork OutScaryCraftsInevitableSatPlotHelpfulUsualBlankEightyBlank Pages
Author:Charles Busch
Create image

“Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians.”

RealSoulChristianSinPoorRichDoubtWiseConditionsHolyDrawsBlindIgnorantMourningHeavenlyPlotDevicesQuestioningHonorableStaggeringStratagem
Author:Thomas Brooks
Create image

“THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is jagged with class issues, faith misused, and broken trust. Henry loses you in a landscape peopled with secret keepers, storytellers and liars, and proves that in the end, love is the only reliable compass. This is everything you expect from Patti Callahan Henry—lyrical writing, characters worth rooting for, a sure-footed belief in the power of goodness—plus a twisty plot that will keep the pages turning long into the night.”

WritingHumansHeartLongEndsCharacterStoriesNightBeliefLosesLove IsSecretClassPathIssuesBrokenProveGoodnessFindingsPagesLandscapePlotLiarsPlusStorytellerHuman HeartCompassTextureKeepersLyricalMisusedSavannahPages Turning
Author:Joshilyn Jackson
Create image

“I wrote 'Turn Your Radio On' in 1937, and it was published in 1938. At this time radio was relatively new to the rural people, especially gospel music programs. I had become alert to the necessity of creating song titles, themes, and plots, and frequently people would call me and say, 'Turn your radio on, Albert, they're singing one of your songs on such-and-such a station.' It finally dawned on me to use their quote, 'Turn your radio on,' as a theme for a religious originated song, and this was the beginning of 'Turn Your Radio On' as we know it.”

PeopleKnowsUseSongTurnsReligiousCreatingSingingProgramRadioTitlesThemePlotStationsCall MeGospel MusicSong Titles
Author:Albert E. Brumley
Create image

“The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way to deal with a totalitarian enemy was to intimidate him. The trouble with this theory was that while we live in a world of plot and counterplot, we also live in a world of cause and effect. Whatever the cause for the decision to legitimize and regularize deceit abroad, the inevitable effect was the practice of deceit at home.”

WorldWayHardHomeActionCausesDecisionDealsEnemyPracticeTroubleEffectsTheoryInevitableDeceitPlotJustificationIntimidatingCause And EffectCloaksDaggersPredatory
Author:Norman Cousins
Create image

“... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going - blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.”

WritingCharacterStoriesRememberNovelBloodEventsLongingForgottenBonesPlotNervesMultipleTissuesMain Characters
Book:This Year You Write Your Novel
Create image