Quotes and Sayings About Plot
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Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.
-- A. S. Byatt -
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
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 -
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
-- Aimee Bender -
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
-- Alan Furst -
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.
-- Alan Lightman -
Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.
-- Alan Moore -
I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
-- Ali Khamenei -
Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.
-- Alphonse Karr -
Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.
-- Andrew Stanton -
Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.
-- Ann Hood -
Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.
-- Anne Lamott -
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.
-- Archibald Cox -
When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
So somehow, things that seem extraneous to the play in reality are not. The scene lasts 37 minutes, and you only need 12 minutes of that for the plot. But if you pull the rest of it out, it's not my play.
-- August Wilson -
Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.
-- Bayard Rustin -
It’s so real." "Most dreams are. It isn't until you wake up that you see all the plot holes.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
-- Ben Stiller -
'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
-- Berkeley Breathed -
When I started in television, it was brand new. It was the miracle over in the corner of your room. Now the audience has seen every story line. People have heard every joke. They can predict the plot almost before a show starts. That's a hard, sophisticated audience to reach.
-- Betty White -
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.'
-- Betty White -
"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot."
-- Bill Richardson -
Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.
-- Billy Bob Thornton -
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.
-- Billy West -
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
-- Billy Wilder -
God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.
-- Bob Balaban -
There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
-- Brad Meltzer -
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
-- Bryant H. McGill
