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I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.
In 'The Grandmaster,' I had a supporting role, but my character in 'The Crossing' is much more central to the plot.
A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.
Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot.
I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot.
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 action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined.
I think 'The Avengers' is a Black Widow movie. She saves the day. And if you take her out, the plot does not function.
I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.
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?
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.
I think as soon as you start believing you're doing something superior to other people, then you start losing the plot.
'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged 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?
Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.
I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.
Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
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.
I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.
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'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 try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
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.
I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'
In 'Notting Hill,' I was part of a whole plot line over six scenes that was completely taken out. That was rather depressing.
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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.
The CIA has a plot...they've used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem...is convincing Hussein...to fly to Dallas.
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.
I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.
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.
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.
In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.
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.
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.
The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.
I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.
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.
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'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.
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.