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I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
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.
The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.
I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!
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.
This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot.
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a 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.
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.