Plot Quotes - Page 10

Plot is the knowing of destination.

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art context and I started to do installations, that was when writing of mine almost returned to fiction. Earlier I felt like I didn't have anything to write about, I could only concentrate on the page, I could only concentrate on words.

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

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.

There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.

Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned with plot or story. And so music really helps - often I'll listen to the music and just write anything, just to get through.

When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.

My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen utensils in the wrong drawers.

History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams’ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is an absolute triumph—I loved every page.

I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story.

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from it. Plot is never something that's been my driving force as a filmmaker.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.