Plots are. . . what the writer sees with.
One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know under what terms - but, for a large section of the old slave plantation. He established himself - sisters and brothers, cousins, etc. on fifty- and sixty-acre plots.
. . . 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.
I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.
I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.
He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me
I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.
Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.
Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.
One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens.
The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett. I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she is very clumsy and her plots are rubbish. But we don't read her for that. There are pages and pages of dialogue. What it requires is real effort and attention.
What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.
The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.
Plots are for dead people.
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant so much as they can crave.
Real life seems to have no plots.
There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.
Spy plots are hard, really hard.