Plot Quotes - Page 5

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration.

J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part.

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

Everyone must hoe his plot daily.

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.

The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.

You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.

Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

The families of rabbits or woodchucks will eat the salad greens just before they are ready to be picked; I plot ways to kill these animals but can never bring myself to do it.

I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.