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Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet.
The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.
Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.
Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.
Hindi film music has always been completely driven by the plot. We singers never had any say in compositions.
Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.
We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.
All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.
I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.
I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.
Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.
I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.
When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.
I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.
I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.
My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot.
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.
What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.
In 'The Grandmaster,' I had a supporting role, but my character in 'The Crossing' is much more central to the plot.
Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot.
A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.
I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.
When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?
I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.
I think 'The Avengers' is a Black Widow movie. She saves the day. And if you take her out, the plot does not function.
And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.
I think as soon as you start believing you're doing something superior to other people, then you start losing the plot.
Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.
When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'
I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.
Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?
Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.
The plot of my 'Phantom' is pretty much mine. It's based on the Gaston Leroux book - I've taken a lot of liberties with it.