Plot Quotes - Page 2

I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.

Vann Chow

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an actionis through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire letrun, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It canonly be dynamic. So, stand aside, forget targets, let the characters, your fingers, body, blood, and heart do.

There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.

In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I'd rather warm my hands on a sunlit ice floe than try to coax fire from the books they carve from glaciers.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

If you write then you are reborn because by writing about the moment, you can relive it for a second time.

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.]

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Khaled Hosseini