Quotes about Plot
People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are at an end. You have nothing but trouble before you... Your liberties will be lost.
— George Whitefield
What is a novel if not a trap for catching a hero?
— Milan Kundera
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A cardinal principle of good fiction [is]: the theme and the plot of a novel must be integrated—as thoroughly integrated as mind and body or thought and action in a rational view of man.
— Ayn Rand
Plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature," said Balph Eubank contemptuously.
— Ayn Rand
When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
— Eugene Peterson
O perfect Lamb of Passover, Let me not quickly run. Recount to me the blessed plot, Tell how the plan was spun That I, a slave of Egypt's lusts, A prisoner of dark dread, Could be condemned unto a cross And find You nailed instead.
— Beth Moore
In good fiction, we have one eye on the hero or the good guys and a fascinated eye on the bad guys, who may be a lot more interesting. The plot leads all of these people (and us) into dark woods where we find, against all odds, a woman or a man with the compass, and it still points true north. That's the miracle, and it's astonishing. This shaft of light, sometimes only a glimmer, both defines and thwarts the darkness.
— Anne Lamott
She uses a formula when writing a short story, which goes ABDCE, for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending.
— Anne Lamott
It almost seems as though some very intentional, finely tuned plot against us intends to rob us of who we are in Christ.
— Sheila Walsh
The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizen of this plight.
— John F. Kennedy