Plot Quotes
Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.
The nation of Dubai banned the movie Charlie's Angles because it's "offensive to the religion of Islam." Apparently, the religion of Islam is offended by anything without a plot.
When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.
It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!
Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.
What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.
I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.
Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.
While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
It's just about trying to find material where I'm doing more than just being a plot device. I want to actually get to do scenes that go to interesting places and are challenging to me.
yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.
If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.
Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.
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.
I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.
The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late into the night.
The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring
There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?
You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.
Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.
Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.
What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.
I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine.
This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell.
But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it.
The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then figuring out how to get him down again.
When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is