Plot Quotes - page 10

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters. (Elizabeth George)

When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?

Elif Batuman

Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.

Elif Batuman

I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.

Siegfried Lenz

Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.

Karen Joy Fowler

Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.

Claire Tomalin

I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.

Lisa Scottoline

I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

Lev Grossman

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

Lisa Unger

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

Berkeley Breathed

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction. (Jo Nesbo)

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

Nancy Gibbs

We are noble people, consider what am saying carefully, we don't know neither treachery nor treason nor guile nor Intrigues. We don't do such things. I am reminding you and myself. we don't betray, we don't plot. We are noble patriotic establishment.

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

Research desk: In 1930, a Spanish edition of the "Protocols” appeared. And in 1972 another edition was published there and used to explain certain Vatican reforms by the Catholic Church! It Italy in 1930 the neo-fascist group Ordino Nuovo circulated a new edition of the "Protocols”! And also in 1930 the neo-facist group ordino nuovo circulated a new edition of the "Protocols”! And also in 1930 in Argentina "Los Protocols De Los Savios De Sion Y La Subversion Mundial” appeared. It was supposed to predict a plot to found a Jewish state by Zionists in Argentina.

Will Eisner

Rachikovsky: What if there appeared a document proving that modernization was a part of a Jewish plot? Gorymikine: It would be absolute evidence of a threat the tsar could not ignore. Rachikovsky: Exactly! Gorymikine: Exactly Rachikovsky! It will make Witte's advice suspect! Rachikovsky: Yes, it will damage Witte's influence and it will answer his majesty's worry about who is behind the unrest! He distrusts''' Jews...it'll be easy... Gorymikine: But where is there such a document? I know of none! Rachikovsky: No problem! We will make one in our secret service, the Okhrana back in France. We have been planting our own propaganda in The French press for years. Gorymikine: It will take a very cunning forger to write it convincingly! Rachikovsky: We will have no problem! Don't worry Gorymikine...I'll be back in Moscow very soon with the ”weapon.

Will Eisner

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

Anita Desai

I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.

Carl Barks

An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build and a gradual bringing together of all the separate threads of the plot. To see all of it coming together slowly is very rewarding for the audience.

Shane Black

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

Zoe Kazan

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

Abdallah II

I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn't wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And 'Netherland' felt the same way. I liked both books a lot but I don't see them as 9/11 novels. (Amy Waldman)

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

Ann Hood

Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.

Arnaud Desplechin

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

Aimee Bender

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.

Aimee Carter

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