“Character is plot, plot is character.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
The Knight of the Burning Pestle (c. 1607; published 1613), Act II, scene 5.
“Character is plot, plot is character.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
“All plots tend to move deathwards. This is the nature of plots.”
Don DeLillo book White Noise
Source: White Noise (1984), Ch. 6
“Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: The Final Empire
“As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.”
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969) English writer
"A Conversation Between I. Compton-Burnett and M. Jourdain", in R. Lehmann et al. (eds.) Orion (London: Nicholson & Watson, 1945) vol. 1, p. 2.
“I'm a kind of a paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
Jerome David Salinger book Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955), p. 76
“a Masonic plot backed by the Jews”
Hutton Gibson (1918) American writer
About the Vatican Council, 3 August 2003 article mentions this was published 4 months ago http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/03/movies/mel-gibson-s-martyrdom-complex.html
“Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
I think some people in togas are plotting against me.”
Henry N. Beard book Latin for All Occasions
Latin for All Occasions (1990)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) Polish-born Jewish-American author
The New York Times (26 November 1978)