Quotes About Plotter

The clever old conniver continued to cogitate.

I tend to be a plotter, just because I do have to write an outline of the book for my publisher, and I like to have an idea of where I'm headed. That said, I don't treat the outline as cast in stone, and I often get better ideas as I write, so the outline is a living thing. What often drives change is when I start writing a particular character and she or he asserts themselves more strongly than I thought they would.

I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.

He does mischief to himself who does mischief to another, and evil planned harms the plotter most.

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.

Phryne opened her book and sipped her lemonade. Agatha Christie. What a plotter. Phryne wished briefly that the real world was so amenable to being solved. ***

I willna be reading the man's love letters," he said firmly. "Even a plotter must scruple at something.

From you, O Nineveh, comes forth a plotter of evil against the LORD, a counselor of wickedness.