Plot Humor Quotes

#1. I don't know why anyone would be scared of a homeless person. The truly scary people are all the murder mystery writers. They spend all day thinking of the perfect plot on how to kill someone and get away with it.

Shannon L. Alder

#2. I have a plot, but not much happens.

Howard Nemerov

#3. I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

Gail Carson Levine

#4. All women know that bridesmaid dresses are a secret plot if the devil.

Helena S. Paige

#5. Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.

Jasper Fforde

#6. If disliking Richard be grounds for accusing a man of conspiracy, I daresay you could implicate half of Christendom in this so-called plot. Richard endears himself easiest to those who've yet to meet him.

Sharon Kay Penman

#7. I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Homer

#8. On November 18 of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel'. Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The Unstrung Harp might apply.

Edward Gorey

#9. What happens over the next few months is like the plot of a children's movie, the kind where a dog finds its owner in spite of insurmountable odds and prohibitive geography.

Lena Dunham

#10. Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.

Bill Richardson

#11. So, was the crime lab a reward for almost being killed?'
'No, it was a reward for not being Bryce,

Beverly Connor

#12. Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.

Justin Swapp

#13. When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.

Adrianne Lee

#14. If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case he would be the dead victim of a horrible plot

Ted Dekker

#15. 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

#16. Preemptive strike n.
A blow or punch delivered by military aircraft to a target who is suspected of being adverse to one's plot for world domination.

Leslie Starr O'Hara

#17. You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can't get me out of the story. I'm the plot, babe, and don't ever forget it.

Margaret Atwood

#18. Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.

Nicolas Roeg

#19. Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing (James 1:2-4).
God's

Charles F. Stanley

#20. Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

Francis Ford Coppola

#21. God is the creator of all good plot twists!

Shannon L. Alder

#22. I have to make decisions that people are a little confused about, in a way, and I just express the appreciation, admiration and respect I have. I just try to be the best I can, but I'm human.

Selena Gomez

#23. So now you have it. The plot, the whole plot, and nothing but the plot.

Elizabeth Peters

#24. I feel that the characters in my book, if they were real, would be like, "Seriously, another plot twist?

Meghan Blistinsky

#25. I want more job. I want to die entertaining.

Kumar Pallana

#26. You don't want to ruin a kid's life for having a joint,

Rick Perry

#27. Life would be boring if we knew how things would turn out in the future. You don't plot out your life and then live it. You live your life and see how it turns out.

Lisa Scott

#28. The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

Terry Pratchett

#29. When he picked out the [gravesite] plot, my father had joked that he was moving, at last, to the suburbs.

Marco Roth

#30. A lot of people don't think my brother has a temper. It's like they assume I somehow sucked up the entire quota of "cranky," and now Shaun's perpetually cheery and ready for a challenge while I glower at people from behind my sunglasses and plot the downfall of the Western world.

Mira Grant

#31. And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day.

Barbara Kingsolver

#32. My deepest wounds and greatest strengths lie in my ability to see the potential for relationship in my life.

Helen LaKelly Hunt

#33. My master was kidnapped by your household's demon chieftains. Return him early, and I'll spare your lives! If you don't, I'll overturn your den and reduce you spirits to pus and blood!

Wu Cheng'en

#34. The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

Lucy Grealy

#35. You should focus on being more interested than interesting.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#36. If I cling to circumstances I could feel
not responsible. Only she who says
she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

Adrienne Rich