Plot Quotes - Page 4

I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.

I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns.

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

Sometimes you can have a great scene but it just doesn't need to be in the movie. If it's not progressing the plot, not progressing the story, not adding to the momentum, or if it's not purposefully serving a breath - it has got to go.

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

A plot is two dogs and one bone.

Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution.

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot."

There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.

No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. I saw the core part of the plot. But if I ever take another look at it then I can see that there was some more stuff going on in there that I didn't realize.

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.

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.