Plot Quotes - Page 17

Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.

God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It's much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more - I want to say sophisticated.

'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made a mistake with that assumption. It was really, really hard because you pull a few things apart and then you realise how everything relies on everything else and it can all fall apart.

It’s so real." "Most dreams are. It isn't until you wake up that you see all the plot holes.

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

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot.

I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

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.

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.

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

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.