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Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.
Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.
Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting.
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.
One of the most striking elements of today's threat picture is that plots to attack America increasingly involve American residents and citizens.
Steve [King] has been incredibly supportive. He's also really good about getting back to me when I have questions about plot or characterization.
Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.
Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.
I don't relax, I don't celebrate. I sit and plot.
Use plot to buttress a story.
As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.
To me 'Qurbani' was a good action film - it was fast, had one plot, and moved along at a pace, and it didn't really divert attention.
Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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.
There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.
There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.
Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.
It's amazing how far you can get into a plot before you figure out what you're doing.
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is
And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.
Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.
All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.
I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.
The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.
'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.
The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets.
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.
I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it.
I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.
The CIA has a plot...they've used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem...is convincing Hussein...to fly to Dallas.
My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.
Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.
Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.
If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack.
Whenever I leave home to film, my wife Marina gets terrified that I'm going to come back having bought a tiny plot of land in rural Alaska.
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.