Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.
If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.
The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.
Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
It’s so real." "Most dreams are. It isn't until you wake up that you see all the plot holes.
There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.
Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.
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 have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
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.
My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
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.
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.
I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
I'm not really good at character or plot development. I'm just interested in big comedic moments.
I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.
The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first.
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.
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.
A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story.
There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.
I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.
I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.
The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
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.
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.
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.