Quotes About Synopsis

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the snap ending.

memory does not store a feature-length film of our experience but instead stores an idiosyncratic synopsis

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

Your [patriarchal] blessing is a prophetic synopsis with excerpts of the blessing you received at Heavenly Father's hand as you prepared to come to earth.

What we find in philosophy is trivial; it does not teach us new facts, only science does that. But the proper synopsis of these trivialities is enormously difficult, and has immense importance. Philosophy is in fact the synopsis of trivialities.

The more clearly a man understands anything, the more readily he can summarize it in a few words.

If it is a book, do not leave it without being able to sum it up and to estimate its value.

Talk about anything long enough, and you cut it down to size.

It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.

Summarizing is when you take a story that is complicated and interesting, then stick it in a microwave until it shrivels up into a tiny piece of black crunchy tarlike stuff. A wise man once said, "Any story, no matter how good, will sound really, really dumb when you shorten it to a few sentences.

I was telling my manager that I wanted to quit the industry because the synopsis I was receiving from filmmakers all felt like a lie. Yes, they were heroine-centric... but the concepts were simple. Like a rape victim, her struggling against the odds and gaining revenge, or a wife who supports her husband endlessly, or a sacrificial mother.

I offer this succinct synopsis of Bonhoeffer on the Christian life: We live in love by grace as the church-community—in, through, and toward Christ.

1. Classify the book according to kind and subject matter. 2. State what the whole book is about with the utmost brevity. 3. Enumerate its major parts in their order and relation, and outline these parts as you have outlined the whole. 4. Define the problem or problems the author is trying to solve.

RULE 2. STATE THE UNITY OF THE WHOLE BOOK IN A SINGLE SENTENCE, OR AT MOST A FEW SENTENCES (A SHORT PARAGRAPH).

For most people, I edit. Most people are definitely getting along on the Cliffs Notes.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

all the boring rehash of what happened up to this point. That saves me a lot of time and effort.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

I'm good at the broad strokes but hopeless at the details.

A logline is simply a movie's one-sentence description.