Plot Quotes

“We are all the construction of a story and it is only at the end that we can assess the value of the plot. ("Everybody his story")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Modernist manuals of writing often conflate story with conflict. This reductionism reflects a culture that inflates aggression and competition while cultivating ignorance of other behavioral options. No narrative of any complexity can be built on or reduced to a single element. Conflict is one kind of behavior. There are others, equally important in any human life, such as relating, finding, losing, bearing, discovering, parting, changing. Change is the universal aspect of all these sources of story. Story is something moving, something happening, something or somebody changing.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“A plot is a thousand times more unsettling than an argument, which may be answered.”
― Eudora Welty

“[The] reader is not primarily interested in plot. He is interested in what happens because he is interested in the character it happens to. No incident has any place in the story unless it has an emotional impact on the character--and on the reader.

Newbery Acceptance Speech”
― Jean Lee Latham, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

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

“There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.”
― Patrice Nganang, Mount Pleasant

“We come up against beauty here — for the first time in our enquiry: beauty at which a novelist should never aim though he fails if he does not achieve it. I will conduct beauty to her proper place later on. Meanwhile please accept her as part of a completed plot. She looks a little surprised at being there, but beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face, as Botticelli knew when he painted her risen from the waves, between the winds and the flowers. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due—she reminds us too much of a prima donna.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

“Believe in Yourself

Why must we see something to believe in its existence?The wind itself cannot be seen by man, but all have felt it's gentle touch and watched the mighty trees bow as it swept past.

We cannot see love yet its nurturing warmth is the essence of our being and sorrow can touch our very soul.

For remorse is like a ripple on the ocean, once given it remains only in the heart of the receiver.

Yet all of these cannot be seen only felt. Why then do you doubt your self-worth? For though it cannot cast a reflection in the mirror you have only to look in the eyes of those you love to
See it clearly.
Prologue To Kiss a King

To Kiss a King Copyright © 2017 by Julie Brookshier and Robin Woods

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― Grace Willows , To Kiss a King

“I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.”
― Vann Chow

“What frightened me most was, I could no longer believe in my own life as a story. Everyone needs a story, a part to play in order to avoid the realization that life is without significance. How else do any of us survive? It’s what makes life bearable, even interesting. When it becomes neither, people say you’ve lost the plot. Or just lost it.”
― Amanda Craig, In a Dark Wood

“The night it falls
The stars shine through
The inky black
That is the cue
For plot demands
That dreams be sown
The fantasies
I have alone
The words come fast
They flow like wine
I am the midnight writer...”
― Virginia Alison

“... plot, the absolute line between two points which I've always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope away. Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.”
― Grace Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories

“The French word for “plot,” trame, also means “heft” or “weave.”
― Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

“A great real estate agent don't sells, he helps.”
― Amit Kalantri

“A good real estate agent sells himself before he sells his services.”
― Amit Kalantri

“The most profitable investment on the land is land.”
― Amit Kalantri

“In pursuit of your Purpose, don't miss the plot by concentrating on making money. Rather focus on helping people by presenting solutions to their problems for it is a guaranteed route to making money in the future.”
― Oscar Bimpong

“There's a lot of sex. But it isn't about sex.”
― Peter Milligan, The Discipline: The Seduction

“You need a revolution in your life so as to know the plot of the devil and discover the thoughts of the Lord toward you”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Pulaski had never been one for the overwrought plot; any entanglement he could imagine between these two lines of evidence was willful to the point of insanity.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“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.”
― Franz Kafka, The Penal Colony

“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.”
― Walter Mosley

“One must take care that one's life does not begin to resemble the plot of a novel.”
― Gregory Blake Smith, The Maze at Windermere

“I lost the plot and bought myself an allotment”
― Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems

“Plot and plan like all good generals.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“You humans are so short-lived that I must remake the pattern over and over again. You don't seem to realize that each time you change your mind or make a choice, you send me back to the loom to plot a new design.”
― Carol Crandell (The Weaver's Tale: A Story of the Malheur River Country

“The purpose of real estate agent should be to create a customer who creates customers.”
― Amit Kalantri

“If you don't find a good deal for your customer, your competitor will.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Real estate agents who lies, eventually lose business to real estate agents who tell the truth.”
― Amit Kalantri

“A great realtor is always in relationship with real estate.”
― Amit Kalantri