Top 1200 Plot Lines Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Other genres are plot-driven, but the entire focus of a romance novel is on the characters and their arcs.

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

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

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

It's amazing how far you can get into a plot before you figure out what you're doing.

I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.

I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.

Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.

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

I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written on the page is right or not. In the script, you describe imagined scenes, but it's all suspended in mid-air. Often, an actor viewed against a wall or a landscape, or seen through a window, is much more eloquent than the lines you've given him. So then you take out the lines. This happens often to me and I end up saying what I want with a movement or a gesture.

When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.

In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

In 'The Grandmaster,' I had a supporting role, but my character in 'The Crossing' is much more central to the plot.

I'm not really good at character or plot development. I'm just interested in big comedic moments.

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

I like shows for atmosphere. I don't know, I think a plot-driven show is so boring and masc4masc and gross.

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

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.

I write my scripts on a whim, without worrying about plot points and graphs.

In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

We will never be a part of any plot against those who are governing our country.

Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?

Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

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

I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?