Quotes by Plot 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. Jon Meacham psychology sibling plot There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot. Jonathan Carroll triggers plot book 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. Jonathan Franzen realizing plot steps 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. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plot character people Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death! Joseph Addison filled-up plot thinking 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. Judith Ortiz Cofer plot space needs 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! Judy Blume plot character ideas The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot. Julianna Baggott plot weight bears What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights. Julie Carmen plot rights evil I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it. Julianna Baggott plot want writing Character is the plot in many ways Junot Diaz plot character way Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me. Karen Joy Fowler plot fighting space I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else. Karin Fossum crime plot In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally. Katharine Whitehorn fate plot mother 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. Katie Wech plot stories thinking But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot. Keith Miller plot character long Sometimes you can have a great scene but it just doesn't need to be in the movie. If it's not progressing the plot, not progressing the story, not adding to the momentum, or if it's not purposefully serving a breath - it has got to go. Kevin Feige progress plot needs A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response. Kim Jong Il plot film emotional I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds. Kim Harrison thought-provoking plot reading The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined. Khaled Hosseini plot stories character «7891011121314151617»
