Quotes by Plot 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." Jim Jarmusch plot kind past 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. Jim Thompson plot writing two Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot. Jim Steinmeyer succeed plot failing There is only one plot-things are not what they seem. Jim Thompson things-are-not-what-they-seem plot writing Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction. Jo Nesbo plot writing ideas I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural. JoAnn Ross life-and-death romance plot 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? Joe Bradley plot fun thinking Life is not a plot; it's in the details. Jodi Picoult details plot life-is I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters. Joe Hill plot character thinking If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts. John Ashbery vitality plot numbers A plot begins when somebody has something to hide. John Banville plot writing We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn’t come with plots; it’s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can’t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense. John Dufresne plot jobs needs From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant so much as they can crave. John Dryden plot heaven years 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. John Kenneth Galbraith economics plot fiction I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it. John Irving plot character believe Welcome to the real world, she said to me. John Mayer black-and-white plot real A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe plot lying needs To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.' John Sayles plot character needs 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. John Stamos plot guy exercise Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state. John Selden affair plot states «678910111213141516»
