Top 1200 Plot Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on April 23, 2025.
A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.
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?
I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it.
Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.
We will never be a part of any plot against those who are governing our country.
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
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.
Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
The drive . . . is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope . . . .
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.
Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul.
All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do it.
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.
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.
Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot.
I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.
In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.
I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.
Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.
I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.
But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
Character, story and plot are affected by any action sequence so you have to really design them accordingly.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.
The plot of my 'Phantom' is pretty much mine. It's based on the Gaston Leroux book - I've taken a lot of liberties with it.
As long as I like the script, speak the language and feel interested in the plot, I can play any role.
I like shows for atmosphere. I don't know, I think a plot-driven show is so boring and masc4masc and gross.
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.
The great thing about a parallel-dimensions story is that you can literally never run out of plot.
Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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.
There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.
I'm not really good at character or plot development. I'm just interested in big comedic moments.
It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.
It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.
Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.
The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.
I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film.
In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.
My parents and I always look at movies and just think, 'What's missing?' from the plot to the people of color or diversity in general.
Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.
Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot.
The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven.
'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can.
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.
Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.
