Plot Quotes

I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.

You go to the marketplace and there are seventeen consciousnesses moving in and out. Sometimes you want the same shirt that I want, and our thought bubbles collide a bit and that makes plot.

It's hard to plan and plot attacks against America if you're on the run, and that's exactly what our brave professionals are doing.

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.

We like to make sure there is a plot at the center of it and that you care about the people but to poke fun of little things, like the toast restaurant in the pilot.

I think situations are more important than plot and character.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

I don't usually read my reviews. I've noticed older reviewers are much more bothered by the plot complications. Younger reviews don't seem to be bothered by the complications at all.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.

The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.

It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.

Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it.

When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner.

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens.

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well when it was released on video, so we really didn't know what to do with the second plot.

I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.

In 'Zombieland,' it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn't matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was a consistent banter.

I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, "Yeah, it's slow and has no plot."

Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot.

I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.

The era of television in which I grew up was much simpler than now. Its conventions were quite transparent and fun to think about. Who could ever remember the plot of those shows?

From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave; God cannot grant so much as they can crave.

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.

In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.

Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

Character is the plot in many ways

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.

One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye candy and coherent plot and world building. It has a strong diverse cast.

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner.

My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting as I'd like it to be.

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.

I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

I hate the word juicy in describing anything: lips, plots, oranges. But especially novels. It feels - icky. Reminds me of saliva.

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.