163 Quotes About Plot

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper.

Stories start in all sorts of places. Where they begin often tells the reader of what to expect as they progress. Castles often lead to dragons, country estates to deeds of deepest love (or of hate), and ambiguously presented settings usually lead to equally as ambiguous characters and plot, leaving a reader with an ambiguous feeling of disappointment. That's one of the worst kinds.

When it occurs at its very finest, writing is little more than serving as a glorified stenographer. In those rare and delicious moments your only hope is that you can capture—as quickly and faithfully as possible—the lives of the characters who now exist as tangibly as you do.

And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back in the summer with which it begins, and finally, instead of following the hero onto the cliffs of suicide, joyfully turns back to that summer, content to stay there forever.

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films—although I think they do have plots—but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

...you mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly...