Quotes by category:Plot

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

needed-someone gertrude plot

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.

plot language use

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

plot writing character

The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot. by James N. Frey

The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.

plot writing character

I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about i... by James Thayer

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

plot ideas needs

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.

plot sick reality

Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our morally bewildered time novelists have often been timid about plot.

novelists plot choices

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread... by Janet Maslin

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

thread plot hot

One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens.

Janet Napolitano

plot citizens america

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

Janette Turner Hospital

plot three two

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.

Janet Evanovich

plot writing firsts

When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well when it was released on video, so we really didn't know what to do with the second plot.

austin video plot

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfid... by Jean de La Fontaine

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

Jean de La Fontaine

rebound plot men

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldo... by Jeff Beck

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

success-or-failure plot ifs

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.

plot character book

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while n... by Jeffery Deaver

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

plot hard-work character

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.

Jennifer Ellison

plot stars names

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.

Jesse Eisenberg

plot character long

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

plot character thinking

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction? by Jim Jarmusch

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

plot film fiction

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