Quotes by Plot There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer. William S. Burroughs psychics plot writing No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us. William Walton honest plot bird Rashly, William Shakespeare divinity plot shapes When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection. William Shakespeare plot house mean The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes. Zhang Yimou elements plot stories I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem. Zoe Kazan plot character thinking Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf. Stanley Elkin individual plot literature golf The conventional Aristotelian plot proceeds by means of a protagonist, an antagonist, and a series of events comprising a rising action, climax and denouement. John Kessel rising plot events action I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader. Joe R. Lansdale surprised plan like plot I'm very good at plot. Matthew Reilly very good plot A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness. Max Apple only continuity plot character The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes. Peter Baynham story redemption plot shapes Use plot to buttress a story. Gayle Lynds story plot use The villain drives the plot. Gayle Lynds drives villain plot I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters. Ellen Potter novels along move plot Character is plot, and casting is character. Warren Beatty casting plot character «1112131415161718192021
