Top 1200 Plot Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.
In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.
'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.
The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
I realised that what I loved was descriptive writing rather than something with a plot.
The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.
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.
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot.
I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.
The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.
I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'
If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.
Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.
Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.
The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.
For me, any story I tackle begins with the human relationships and not the plot.
Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.
No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.
Badlapur' is a drama, a character-driven story. It is not so much about plot.
I write my scripts on a whim, without worrying about plot points and graphs.
There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.
In 'The Grandmaster,' I had a supporting role, but my character in 'The Crossing' is much more central to the plot.
There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.
It’s so real." "Most dreams are. It isn't until you wake up that you see all the plot holes.
Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.
Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.
This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.
I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.
There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.
Other genres are plot-driven, but the entire focus of a romance novel is on the characters and their arcs.
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.
Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.
Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history.
It is very challenging to make a fresh screenplay based on a used plot.
The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.
I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.
Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.
But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.
[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.
It's amazing how far you can get into a plot before you figure out what you're doing.
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.
I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.
Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.
I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
