163 Quotes About Plot

  • Author Heidi Julavits
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    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.

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  • Author James Joyce
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    One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

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  • Author Maira Kalman
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    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.'

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  • Author Walter Kirn
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    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.

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  • Author Alice McDermott
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    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.

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  • Author Marshall McLuhan
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    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.

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