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You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.

Douglas Coupland
plot waiting doe
[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot. by Dorothy Parker

[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.

Dorothy Parker
epitaph involved plot
Plot is unimportant. Family is everything, and 'Furious 7' is a b... by Drew McWeeny

Plot is unimportant. Family is everything, and 'Furious 7' is a blast.

Drew McWeeny
family-is-everything blast plot

I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.

Ed McBain
plot example book
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot... by Edgar Bergen

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

Edgar Bergen
communist buried plot

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

E. M. Forster
elements detectives plot
The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God. by Edgar Allan Poe

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.

Edgar Allan Poe
plot universe perfect
I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with t... by Edward Burns

I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.

Edward Burns
plot balance trying
And much of Madness, and more of Sin, by Edgar Allan Poe

And much of Madness, and more of Sin,

Edgar Allan Poe
madness plot soul

Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.

Elizabeth Bowen
plot should character
Plot is the knowing of destination. by Elizabeth Bowen

Plot is the knowing of destination.

Elizabeth Bowen
plot destination knowing

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.

Elizabeth George
plot events character

Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move forward all at once. Interruptions happen, change rushes in, we juggle three or ten balls at once. Readers don’t expect continuous narratives.

Elizabeth Sims
plot writing moving
Motivation is the power behind plot. by Elizabeth Moon

Motivation is the power behind plot.

Elizabeth Moon
behinds plot motivation

Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and a small subplot that feeds in a twist or an unexpected piece of business that ads crunch and flavor to the story as a whole.

Elizabeth Sims
twists plot writing

I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

Ellen Goodman
plot imagination home

The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the novel has, which is a somewhat ambiguous ending, is the only logical ending given the structure of the book as a whole.

Emily Barton
plot development book
I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success i... by Eminem

I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.

Eminem
jail plot ends

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

Emma Donoghue
planning plot needs

I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.

Eric Allman
plot joy believe
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