Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do it.
I always wanted to, at some point, sit down and consider how to plot out one piece of work, one album, from start to finish.
I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'
I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana.
In 'Notting Hill,' I was part of a whole plot line over six scenes that was completely taken out. That was rather depressing.
A page a day means I need to focus on a gag a day, and that's great for laughs but bad for plot, and I'm primarily a plot guy.
You're always trying to learn from the past to plot a course in the future that will be better. You're always trying to learn.
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.
In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.
I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.
The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.
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.
In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.
I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and don't know who they are.
I hate the word juicy in describing anything: lips, plots, oranges. But especially novels. It feels - icky. Reminds me of saliva.
I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in and plunge too far.
[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.
The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.
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.
I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!
This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot.
I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can.
It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.
My parents and I always look at movies and just think, 'What's missing?' from the plot to the people of color or diversity in general.
You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.
The reality is that my wife would be pretty upset if I went and bought a plot of land somewhere in Outer Mongolia or the Arctic Circle!
Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.
I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.
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.
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.
It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.
There are many oral historians in America, but my books are made using the rules of novel writing. I have a beginning, a plot, characters.
I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.
If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.
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.
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.
Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.