Quotes by Plot I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road. Ted Kooser plot busy littles 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 Ted Dekker kevin plot would-be Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature. Teresa Nielsen Hayden conventions plot stories Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness. Terence McKenna expansion plot culture There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before. Terri Windling plot done world With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with. Terry Eagleton plot home character The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues. Terry Pratchett plot inspire life The culture industry perpetually cheats its consumers of what it perpetually promises. The promissory note which, with its plots and staging, it draws on pleasure is endlessly prolonged; the promise, which is actually all the spectacle consists of, is illusory: all it actually confirms is that the real point will never be reached, that the diner must be satisfied with the menu. Theodor Adorno plot real promise What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things? Theresa Villiers fine-things devil plot I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free. Theresa May succeed plot risk Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do. Thomas Perry plot voice character Plot makes the character just as history makes the man. Thomas Steinbeck plot character men They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up. Thomas Pynchon plot sleep The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really. Terry Pratchett plot happens character Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't. Terry Pratchett plot people world 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. Ti West valleys plot violence I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story. Ti West not-interested plot stories 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. Tilly Bagshawe triumph romance plot 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. Tom Conti utensils kitchen plot When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters. Tom Rickman drawing plot character «1112131415161718192021»