Quotes about plot
plot lucky
I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me Caroline B. Cooney
plot storytelling shows
Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling. Bryan Fuller
plot shapes divinity
Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will William Shakespeare
plot cliche generic
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. Ben Stiller
plot communist buried
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. Edgar Bergen
plot hiding subtle
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. Billy Wilder
plot dames christie
I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie). Connie Willis
plot relationship
A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me - when I wasn't saying it to her. Walter Kirn
plotting prop rewriting studio tim
Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise. Vicki Lawrence
plot-lines stories easy
It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.
plot care want
I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way. Barry Hannah
plot-lines sometimes convoluted
Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off. Clive Cussler
plot stories ears
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear. Anne Enright
plot murder knows
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. Don DeLillo
plot purpose stories
Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is, because I'm living my life and not always reflecting on it, but as I edit these pages I am aware that I have an urge to see my sometimes random wandering as having a plot, a purpose guided by some underlying story. David Byrne
plot planets democrat
Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet. David Letterman
plotting tinker
Tinker Bell needs a Tinker Bell. She needs someone plotting for her. I certainly think that it's something she wants. Rose McIver
plot
We can't even plot it on a map.
plot reviews complication
I don't usually read my reviews. I've noticed older reviewers are much more bothered by the plot complications. Younger reviews don't seem to be bothered by the complications at all. Heidi Julavits
plot three scene
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. Ayn Rand
plot reach
They were intercepted before the plot could reach fruition.
plot stories
God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves. Eugene H. Peterson
plot
Plots are ... what the writer sees with. Eudora Welty
plot ifs success-or-failure
If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau. Jeff Beck
plot driving film
There are few films where you have women really driving the plot. Geoffrey S. Fletcher
plot fiction remember
The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end? Graham Greene
plot happens
I have a plot, but not much happens. Howard Nemerov
plot steps year
Think about where you want to be in a year or two, then plot out the steps you need to take to get there.
plot-lines people political
The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate. Julia Gillard
plot fiction film
Life has no plot, why must films or fiction? Jim Jarmusch
plot starts
I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning - you know, 'beginning, middle and end.' Maira Kalman
plot
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. Alice McDermott
plot paranoid well-being
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. Jack Canfield