Quotes by category:Plot

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.

plot wish say-anything

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning... by Ann Hood

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

smooth plot grief

I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my favorite plots.

plot husband monsters

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.

plot ears stories

Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.

plot worry character

Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.

plot views stories

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.

plot home lying

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

philosophical plot poet

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION. by Aristotle

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

plot action character

I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual. by Arthur Bradford

I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.

Arthur Bradford

unusual plot want

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

plot discovery world

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

Arthur Schopenhauer

plot perfect looks

So somehow, things that seem extraneous to the play in reality are not. The scene lasts 37 minutes, and you only need 12 minutes of that for the plot. But if you pull the rest of it out, it's not my play.

plot play reality

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.

plot three scene

My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; the... by Barry Hannah

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

plot language stories

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a... by Barry Hannah

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

plot care different

Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

birth-place plot mind

It’s so real." "Most dreams are. It isn't until you wake up that... by Becca Fitzpatrick

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

Becca Fitzpatrick

plot real dream

There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.

plot men thinking

I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made a mistake with that assumption. It was really, really hard because you pull a few things apart and then you realise how everything relies on everything else and it can all fall apart.

plot mistake fall

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