The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a meaning separate from the rest-for example, the meeting of two people, which will become decisive for both-must bear in mind that each of the two brings with himself a texture of events, environments, other people, and that from the meeting, in turn, other stories will be derived which will break off from their common story.

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 action
is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let
run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can
only be dynamic. So, stand aside, forget targets, let the characters, your fingers, body, blood, and heart do.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

A good plot is like a dream.

Character is plot, plot is character.

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

Everybody must have a fantasy.

So everything is something else.

But, when to Sin our byast Nature leans,
The carefull Devil is still at hand with means;
And providently Pimps for ill desires:
The Good old Cause reviv'd, a Plot requires.
Plots, true or false, are necessary things,
To raise up Common-wealths, and ruin Kings.

Everything starts as somebody's dream.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise… Because that is how life is — full of surprises.

Something is always happening somewhere.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.