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Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.
The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.
I'm attracted to people who work their little plot of land and cultivate it and cultivate it.
The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.
Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.
I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.
I'm not really good at character or plot development. I'm just interested in big comedic moments.
It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.
The great thing about a parallel-dimensions story is that you can literally never run out of plot.
There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.
I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story.
I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.
I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.
There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.
God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.
Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.
There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?
I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.
But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to me.
Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.
Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.
Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.
I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.