Plot Quotes

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Dialogue is character and character is plot.

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

In Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to confess the Jewish plot. Because in Fascism, you are guilty for your whole being.

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.

War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism.

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.

This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not.

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development.

The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

The drive . . . is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope . . . .

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

Night Owls is a fast, fun read that kept me turning the pages. Lauren M. Roy delivers a plot that zips, dialogue that zings, and a cast of characters you'll cheer for to the very end. Thumbs up!

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel.

A plot is two dogs and one bone.

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot."

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.