Plot Quotes - Page 16

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.

I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

Enjoy the present, plot the progress, you'll still reach the goal

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

Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist.

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet.

Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.

The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in and plunge too far.

You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel always has a plot. Even if nothing happens, even if someone just spends a day walking around Dublin, or whatever, there's still something going on.

When I wrote Rick, I had the idea that I would take the plot of nearly every opera and turn it into a dark film, which is something I still may do.

I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it this once, because even now I want you to see it. I don't love you anymore, of course I don't, but there's still something I can show you. You know I want to be a director, but you never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.

I start with an image, then I go from the image toward exploring the situation. Then I write a scene, and from the scene I find the character, from the character I find the larger plot. It's like deductive reasoning - I start with the smaller stuff and work backward.

Plot was always secondary in my mind.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.

Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story

The whole idea of Mass Effect3 is resolving all of the biggest questions, about the Protheons and the Reapers, and being in the driver's seat to end the galaxy and all of these big plot lines, to decide what civilizations are going to live or die: All of these things are answered in Mass Effect 3.

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work colleague or someone they vaguely knew for years; living in a parallel world in their head; conjuring up endless plots and scenarios for this thing that never actually happened.

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

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