Quotes by Plot I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots. Cassandra Clare plot inspiration adventure The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always a hard one for me. And I always had this spastic tendency to wrap up a story before I'd seen it the whole way through, a sort of writer's pre-ejaculatory tendency: "The End!" Cate Marvin balls plot fiction I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to me. Channing Tatum frustrated plot feels Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless. Charles Dudley Warner plot men fiction I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. Charles Francis Richter devil plot lucky Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro plot stories character Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. Chinua Achebe plot worry character The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt plot desire writing Most of the people who were responsible for 9/11 are now in custody or have been killed. But there are others, and they plot and they plan, and they hope to pull it off again. And while we have to be right 100 percent of the time, they only have to be right once. So there's no way to overreact to that. Condoleezza Rice custody plot people I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie). Connie Willis christie dames plot I don't relax, I don't celebrate. I sit and plot. Conor McGregor mma relax plot I plot my ascent daily. Conor McGregor mma ascent plot He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds. Dag Hammarskjold weed plot garden Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work. Dan Chaon plot block thinking Plot was always secondary in my mind. Dan Chaon plot mind I start with an image, then I go from the image toward exploring the situation. Then I write a scene, and from the scene I find the character, from the character I find the larger plot. It's like deductive reasoning - I start with the smaller stuff and work backward. Dan Chaon plot writing character I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it this once, because even now I want you to see it. I don't love you anymore, of course I don't, but there's still something I can show you. You know I want to be a director, but you never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up. Daniel Handler plot love-you directors When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do. Daniel Handler plot dark ideas You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel always has a plot. Even if nothing happens, even if someone just spends a day walking around Dublin, or whatever, there's still something going on. Daniel Kehlmann fate plot thinking Plot and character are virtually the same thing. Daniel Keys Moran plot writing character «1234567891011»