Plot Quotes
Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.
I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.
One of the most deadly causes of destruction of divine destinies is when a leader is failing, but he or she does not know it. Ignorance about your role is a death plot against people's successes.
The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.
You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper.
The last time she was up here, she had been... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked down and plotted flames.
The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer.
There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.
By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and withoutcharacter and plot, no book can survive.
We are all the construction of a story and it is only at the end that we can assess the value of the plot. ("Everybody his story")
So, was the crime lab a reward for almost being killed?''No, it was a reward for not being Bryce,
Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our plot twists.
What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.
Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.
Don’t be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing
A director's dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché's are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions.
Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.
This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.
Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.
He had no big plan for this. He had not prepared for the day when he would be fighting his own work. He had not plotted against his own plots.
Next time -- we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren!
Gentlemen. You are looking at the true Abraham Lincoln of Arabia. And in order to end our internal bickering - our civil war, if you will - I have solicited your aid.
Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I followed that mood, and let the shape of the story flow from that.
Not telling everything you know is not the same as telling a lie.
Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.
Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.
