Quotes about Plot

Plot is the knowing of destination. Votes: 3

Plot was always secondary in my mind. Votes: 3

Plot and character are virtually the same thing. Votes: 3

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then. Votes: 3

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man. Votes: 3

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature. Votes: 3

Plot is unimportant. Family is everything, and 'Furious 7' is a blast. Votes: 3

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. Votes: 3

What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things? Votes: 3

Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. Votes: 3

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters. Votes: 3

Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development. Votes: 3

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. Votes: 3

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires. Votes: 3

This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not. Votes: 3

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies. Votes: 3

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. Votes: 3

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Votes: 3

Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks. Votes: 3

Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work. Votes: 3

Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white. Votes: 3

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not. Votes: 3

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder. Votes: 3

I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better. Votes: 3

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace. Votes: 3

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. Votes: 3

Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there's an explosion-that's Plot. Votes: 3

I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. ' Votes: 3

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique. Votes: 3

Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out what the story is... My process is a bit messier. Votes: 3

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. Votes: 3

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage. Votes: 3

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film. Votes: 3

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker. Votes: 3

Oh what would Rome be without a plot? Votes: 2

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness. Votes: 2

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. Votes: 2

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot. Votes: 2

I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being. Votes: 2

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot. Votes: 2

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. Votes: 2

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot. Votes: 2

There's a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman, and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot. Votes: 2

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught. Votes: 2

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot. Votes: 2

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting. Votes: 2

When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love. Votes: 2

To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding. Votes: 2

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. Votes: 2

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE Votes: 2

She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams. Votes: 2

When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere. Votes: 2

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end. Votes: 1

You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos. Votes: 1

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring. Votes: 1

Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot. Votes: 1

I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something. Votes: 1

I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort of page-turner. I tend to care less about plot, but I'm a sucker for humor and strangeness. Votes: 1

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem. Votes: 1

Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended. Votes: 1

I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline. Votes: 1

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time. Votes: 1

Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is. Votes: 1

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting. Votes: 1

Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character's choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned. Votes: 1

Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you. Votes: 1

Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism. Votes: 1

We began to do little things, have little scenes where we just talked about things that had nothing to do with the plot. In fact, in the beginning, they didn't want us to do that. But as time went on, you see that in so many shows. I think we were the first to do that. Votes: 1

There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that's not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn't move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial paradigm. Votes: 1

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies. Votes: 1

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal. Votes: 1

Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I liked the idea of doing the same thing, which is one reason I structured 'Goon Squad' as a record album, with an A side and a B side, that's built around the contrasting sounds of the individual numbers in it. Votes: 1

[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot. Votes: 0

I plot my ascent daily. Votes: 0

plot is character in action. Votes: 0

Motivation is the power behind plot. Votes: 0

Everyone must hoe his plot daily... Votes: 0

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION. Votes: 0

Character is plot, plot is character. Votes: 0

Character is the plot in many ways Votes: 0

Dialogue is character and character is plot. Votes: 0

Time is the metre, memory the only plot. Votes: 0

The characters write the plot. Their natures do. Votes: 0

The character's attitude is more important than plot. Votes: 0

I love a life whose plot is simple. Votes: 0

I have a plot, but not much happens. Votes: 0

A plot is two dogs and one bone. Votes: 0

Life is not a plot; it's in the details. Votes: 0

I feel like I know how to write plot. Votes: 0

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction? Votes: 0

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative. Votes: 0

Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect. Votes: 0

A plot begins when somebody has something to hide. Votes: 0

There is only one plot-things are not what they seem. Votes: 0

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot. Votes: 0

The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot. Votes: 0

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot. Votes: 0

I think situations are more important than plot and character. Votes: 0

...you mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly... Votes: 0

The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes. Votes: 0

I don't relax, I don't celebrate. I sit and plot. Votes: 0

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard. Votes: 0

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire. Votes: 0

This book has too much plot and not enough story. Votes: 0

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. Votes: 0

The best plot twists are the ones you didn't expect. Votes: 0

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself. Votes: 0

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot. Votes: 0

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one. Votes: 0

Enjoy the present, plot the progress, you'll still reach the goal Votes: 0

I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all. Votes: 0

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun. Votes: 0

The story is not in the plot but in the telling. Votes: 0

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up. Votes: 0

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie). Votes: 0

The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them. Votes: 0

Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story Votes: 0

Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns. Votes: 0

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot. Votes: 0

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us. Votes: 0

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns. Votes: 0

Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity. Votes: 0

Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot. Votes: 0

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters. Votes: 0

Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot. Votes: 0

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things. Votes: 0

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut. The plot thickens. Votes: 0

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device. Votes: 0

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves. Votes: 0

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God. Votes: 0

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things? Votes: 0

"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot." Votes: 0

In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot. Votes: 0

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not. Votes: 0

Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot. Votes: 0

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things? Votes: 0

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it. Votes: 0

Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time. Votes: 0

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds. Votes: 0

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling. Votes: 0

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film. Votes: 0

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Votes: 0

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president. Votes: 0

A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy. Votes: 0

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest. Votes: 0

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot... Votes: 0

A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response. Votes: 0

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot. Votes: 0

My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end. Votes: 0

I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it. Votes: 0

It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv. Votes: 0

I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic. Votes: 0

And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. Votes: 0

Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line. Votes: 0

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. Votes: 0

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. Votes: 0

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel. Votes: 0

I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot. Votes: 0

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with. Votes: 0

With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. Votes: 0

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot. Votes: 0

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. Votes: 0

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing. Votes: 0

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away. Votes: 0

Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home. Votes: 0

I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek. Votes: 0

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires. Votes: 0

I think a lot of drama, nowadays, is character-based and development-based, but 'True Blood' is very plot-oriented. Votes: 0

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction. Votes: 0

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language. Votes: 0

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen. Votes: 0

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges. Votes: 0

I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces. Votes: 0

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself. Votes: 0

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land. Votes: 0

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot. Votes: 0

It takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it. Votes: 0

I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning. Votes: 0

I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road. Votes: 0

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it... Votes: 0

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature. Votes: 0

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it. Votes: 0

When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters. Votes: 0

Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist. Votes: 0

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot. Votes: 0

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together. Votes: 0

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes. Votes: 0

Through all the drama - whether damned or not -Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot. Votes: 0

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going. Votes: 0

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way. Votes: 0

But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it. Votes: 0

My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot. Votes: 0

I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot. Votes: 0

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story. Votes: 0

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically. Votes: 0

Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet. Votes: 0

Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made. Votes: 0

I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important. Votes: 0

I feel that the characters in my book, if they were real, would be like, "Seriously, another plot twist? Votes: 0

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau. Votes: 0

I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work. Votes: 0

Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment. Votes: 0

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. Votes: 0

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out. Votes: 0

Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. Votes: 0

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance. Votes: 0

I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot. Votes: 0

My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot. Votes: 0

Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot. Votes: 0

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem. Votes: 0

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined. Votes: 0

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. Votes: 0

Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot. Votes: 0

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. Votes: 0

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters. Votes: 0

By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and withoutcharacter and plot, no book can survive. Votes: 0

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot. Votes: 0

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator. Votes: 0

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens. Votes: 0

I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years. Votes: 0

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this. Votes: 0

The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end? Votes: 0

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. Votes: 0

It’s so real." "Most dreams are. It isn't until you wake up that you see all the plot holes. Votes: 0

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. Votes: 0

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. Votes: 0

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot... Votes: 0

I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not. Votes: 0

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention. Votes: 0

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath. Votes: 0

I begin by writing paragraphs that don't have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. Votes: 0

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. Votes: 0

Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot. Votes: 0

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. Votes: 0

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes. Votes: 0

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too. Votes: 0

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story. Votes: 0

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. Votes: 0

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest. Votes: 0

In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. Votes: 0

Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly. Votes: 0

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't. Votes: 0

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character. Votes: 0

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is Votes: 0

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it. Votes: 0

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it. Votes: 0

Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters. Votes: 0

There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29. Votes: 0

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? Votes: 0

In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody. Votes: 0

I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it. Votes: 0

The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens. Votes: 0

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think? Votes: 0

Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul. Votes: 0

The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution. Votes: 0

I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?' Votes: 0

[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot. Votes: 0

Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize. Votes: 0

This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot. Votes: 0

I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone. Votes: 0

The CIA has a plot...they've used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem...is convincing Hussein...to fly to Dallas. Votes: 0

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot. Votes: 0

I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor! Votes: 0

It's hard to plan and plot attacks against America if you're on the run, and that's exactly what our brave professionals are doing. Votes: 0

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me. Votes: 0

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole. Votes: 0

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically. Votes: 0

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off. Votes: 0

I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward. Votes: 0

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot. Votes: 0

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself Votes: 0

I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to me. Votes: 0

Steve [King] has been incredibly supportive. He's also really good about getting back to me when I have questions about plot or characterization. Votes: 0

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline. Votes: 0

I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it. Votes: 0

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot. Votes: 0

I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy. Votes: 0

I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being. Votes: 0

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes. Votes: 0

Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel. Votes: 0

Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it. Votes: 0

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice. Votes: 0

I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag. Votes: 0

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you. Votes: 0

If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot. Votes: 0

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward. Votes: 0

And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out. Votes: 0

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I? Votes: 0

Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our plot twists. Votes: 0

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction. Votes: 0

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways. Votes: 0

In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share. Votes: 0

Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive. Votes: 0

Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling. Votes: 0

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on. Votes: 0

Disturbing and intriguing. The Synchronicity Factor is much more than a page-turning thriller, for its remarkable plot is rooted in real science and real history. Votes: 0

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands. Votes: 0

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home. Votes: 0

Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist. Votes: 0

You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper. Votes: 0

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms. Votes: 0

I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana. Votes: 0

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine. Votes: 0

True Blood' differs from 'Six Feet Under' in that there are way more characters and plot-lines, but fundamentally it's still about the characters and their emotions. Votes: 0

Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting. Votes: 0

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious. Votes: 0

I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot. Votes: 0

Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around. Votes: 0

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring Votes: 0

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on. Votes: 0

Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can. Votes: 0

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell. Votes: 0

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I've used every one, but there is only one plot "“ things are not as they seem. Votes: 0

Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. Votes: 0

The drive . . . is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope . . . . Votes: 0

There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot. Votes: 0

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about. Votes: 0

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it. Votes: 0

The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message. We will bring to justice those who plot to attack the United States of America. Votes: 0

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely. Votes: 0

When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner. Votes: 0

My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband. Votes: 0

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. Votes: 0

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?' Votes: 0

The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets. Votes: 0

I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are. Votes: 0

My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers. Votes: 0

I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign. Votes: 0

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't. Votes: 0

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council. Votes: 0

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. Votes: 0

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too. Votes: 0

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot. Votes: 0

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot. Votes: 0

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose! Votes: 0

Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner. Votes: 0

[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically. Votes: 0

The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot. Votes: 0

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines. Votes: 0

I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and characterisation and that sort of thing. Votes: 0

This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, . . . This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land. Votes: 0

I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel. Votes: 0

I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when I'm sitting there trying to plot. Votes: 0

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't. Votes: 0

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back. Votes: 0

The don't-ask-don't-tell approach to plot and character that 'The Hurt Locker' relies on to set itself in motion doesn't offend me politically. It offends me as a storyteller. Votes: 0

I love a well-plotted story. But I'm just not that kind of writer, and it's not necessarily by choice. When I manipulate plot, I feel I lose authenticity. Votes: 0

Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life. Votes: 0

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points. Votes: 0

Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it. Votes: 0

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points. Votes: 0

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls... Votes: 0

Open Secret boasts a nifty plot and, in Coroner Fortin, a fascinating protagonist who will likely be around for a long time. Deryn Collier is a talent to watch, Votes: 0

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels. Votes: 0

In 'Zombieland,' it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn't matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was a consistent banter. Votes: 0

With different changes but the same plot, sometimes our story has already unfolded. It's just trapped in the pages of ink and paper. God is waiting in His Word. Votes: 0

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls Votes: 0

I tell stories through dance, and I think that's why I'm so attracted to the theatre because even the choreography in theatre moves the plot forward at all times. Votes: 0

War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism. Votes: 0

The nation of Dubai banned the movie Charlie's Angles because it's "offensive to the religion of Islam." Apparently, the religion of Islam is offended by anything without a plot. Votes: 0

History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams' prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is an absolute triumph—I loved every page. Votes: 0

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen. Votes: 0

Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc. Votes: 0

[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie. Votes: 0

I need it all: in-depth characterization, fantastic/warped world building, a plot that could out-race Secretariat, and a 'voice.' I need to hear a uniqueness in the author's voice. Votes: 0

The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late into the night. Votes: 0

I don't usually read my reviews. I've noticed older reviewers are much more bothered by the plot complications. Younger reviews don't seem to be bothered by the complications at all. Votes: 0

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them. Votes: 0

Your life will have chapters, complete with crazy characters, villains and a plot you can't even imagine as you sit here today. It's a lot like a Scooby Doo episode. Votes: 0

A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks Votes: 0

I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat it with the respect I believe it deserves. Votes: 0

I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, "Yeah, it's slow and has no plot." Votes: 0

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes. Votes: 0

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot. Votes: 0

It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining. Votes: 0

The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then figuring out how to get him down again. Votes: 0

I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives. Votes: 0

I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep track of plot threads, characters, and so on). Votes: 0

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. Votes: 0

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times. Votes: 0

A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews. Votes: 0

My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting as I'd like it to be. Votes: 0

A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks. Votes: 0

In the story of life, the prologue and epilogue are written by God. Yet the plot has been given to us; therefore we should write the best prose we can. Votes: 0

Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development. Votes: 0

I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted to stay. It was really a great working environment. Votes: 0

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot. Votes: 0

We go to the mountain for enlightenment, for self-realization, for adventure, for discovery. It's pregnant with meaning. When people see a mountain, they invest it with meaning. Not plot. Not character. Votes: 0

I urge you to be teachers so that you can join with children as the co-collaborators in a plot to build a little place of ecstasy and poetry and gentle joy Votes: 0

Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is an epistolary novel - one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents. Votes: 0

I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where the eyes, nose, and mouth are. Votes: 0

The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy will bounce off that and work. Votes: 0

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story? Votes: 0

You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them. Votes: 0

It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always. Votes: 0

I really felt sometimes like I was physically pulling the plot, and it was heavy. I'm sure it didn't look great that I was going into my dressing room at lunch. Votes: 0

Mohammed al-Qahtani was not alleged to be a leader of the Sept. 11 plot. He was not trained as a pilot. If he was involved, he was one of the 'muscle' hijackers. Votes: 0

The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight. Votes: 0

In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped. Votes: 0

You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though. Votes: 0

In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole. Votes: 0

I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Extras' and also 'The Trip.' That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven. Votes: 0

When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do. Votes: 0

Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot. Votes: 0

When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it. Votes: 0

When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection. Votes: 0

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda. Votes: 0

The challenge that I set for myself was to see whether or not plot and structure could coexist, and why it was that we had to always privilege one above the other. Votes: 0

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel. Votes: 0

I would say I have sort of a natural gift for character, and following one person's point of view at a time, and dialogue, but I'm not naturally good at strong plot. Votes: 0

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand. Votes: 0

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda. Votes: 0

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit. Votes: 0

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot. Votes: 0

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. Votes: 0

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds. Votes: 0

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it. Votes: 0

When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next. Votes: 0

The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard, very cynical. I could never have pulled it off. Votes: 0

There's a stigma that guys hate romance and hate love, but that's not true. Look at 'Iron Man.' There's a whole through-line plot about his relationship with Pepper, and everybody loves it. Votes: 0

A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me - when I wasn't saying it to her. Votes: 0

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.... Votes: 0

I just reached the point where plot-driven novels don't hold my interest because I don't care about the fate of characters anymore - whether Emily marries Tom or not, that kind of thing. Votes: 0

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect. Votes: 0

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core. Votes: 0

My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play Votes: 0

In a way, this kind of insight or recognition often permeates the way I think of character, how I plot action, and the way in which I use imagery, seeing binaries as false. Votes: 0

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie. Votes: 0

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying. Votes: 0

The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows? Votes: 0

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot. Votes: 0

I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing. Votes: 0

But it isn't a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns. Votes: 0

In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it for comic effect. It's a similar muscle being used with Black Mirror. Votes: 0

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own. Votes: 0

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material. Votes: 0

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own Votes: 0

[Ivy Wilkes] loves [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work, but is not satisfied by just looking at the paintings; she wants the painting to be her own. The plot grew naturally out of Ivy's personality (and flaws). Votes: 0

Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved. Votes: 0

The families of rabbits or woodchucks will eat the salad greens just before they are ready to be picked; I plot ways to kill these animals but can never bring myself to do it... Votes: 0

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation. Votes: 0

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes. Votes: 0

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. Votes: 0

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes. Votes: 0

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over. Votes: 0

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. Votes: 0

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes. Votes: 0

Even if the experience in my stories is not autobiographical and the actual plot is not autobiographical, the emotion is always somewhat autobiographical. I think there's some of me in every one of the stories. Votes: 0

We like to make sure there is a plot at the center of it and that you care about the people but to poke fun of little things, like the toast restaurant in the pilot. Votes: 0

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess. Votes: 0

When I'm at the premiere and I see the film in its entirety, I forget plot, I forget the story, I forget what my character goes through, because I really do just let it go. Votes: 0

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life. Votes: 0

yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that. Votes: 0

I want my stories to be understood and enjoyed by anyone, so I need 'beta-readers' who will tell me when the plot is working or not working, and when my writing is concise or vague. Votes: 0

I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine. Votes: 0

Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot. Votes: 0

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots. Votes: 0

It's just about trying to find material where I'm doing more than just being a plot device. I want to actually get to do scenes that go to interesting places and are challenging to me. Votes: 0

One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye candy and coherent plot and world building. It has a strong diverse cast. Votes: 0

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together. Votes: 0

It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in your little plot and claim it back for the jungle. Votes: 0

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best. Votes: 0