Quotes About Plotting

I'm a guy who's been around this sport on the outside looking in, seeing, watching, scheming, plotting and planning his next big move.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

'Glass Sword' has several set piece scenes that I plotted out or visualized before I wrote them, but I always knew they were coming. They anchor bits of the story.

I have a cunning plan.

I cannot imagine that my confessions impressed the good Monsignor, but for one reason or another, I was made an altar boy, and thereby brought into the inner sanctum of the church behind the lighted sacristy door. It was a profound disappointment. Nothing mysterious happened there, and if any plotting was done, I wasn't privy to it.

No quería que la gente sospechase que estaban en connivencia. Todavía no.

Margaret thought; my father is going insane. He lowered his voice, and his face took on a crafty expression.

Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.

In order to have the best intelligence in the world to know who the terrorists are and where they are and what they're plotting, you've got to have the best cooperation you've ever had in the world.

3. The séance was for real and everyone knows it. But they won't discuss it because A. they don't trust me, B. they don't like me, or C. they're playing it down because they're plotting to get me alone after school, duct tape my mouth, and throw me over the fence so Annaliese can rip out my throat with her ghostly teeth. Okay. Now that's paranoid.

I do a lot of planning and plotting. That's my greatest weakness. If I'm not terribly careful, I'll plan to a point where it could come out cut and dried.

The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.

My muse is an ungrateful harlot who's abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.

her mind will always be plotting and scheming and churning and burning and whizzing and phizzing with murderous bloodthirsty thoughts.

I'm an into-the-mist writer in terms of plotting, and my process in general is very intuitive. Since my series characters are well established, what usually happens is they start talking in my head, and I'd better grab a pad and pen or hit the digital recorder feature on my iPhone or get to the keyboard before it goes away.

You know," Ghastly said to Skulduggery, "for someone who hates plans, you've got an awful lot of them." "Well, yes," Skulduggery replied, "but really, the likelihood of any of them actually working is extraordinarily slim.

Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.

Inspiring isn't the same as plotting.

Asking for a friend," Asher clarified. Then he nudged his best friend. "Henry, my good man, tell Tess she's pretty as a picture when she's preparing to unleash her wrath on the delightfully unsuspecting father of one of our classmates." "Kendrick?" Henry Marquette said. "Yes?" I replied without taking my eyes away from the street. "You are utterly terrifying when you are plotting something.

Time to do what he did best - plot dastardly acts.

Opal Koboi does not make plans; she writes operas.

How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world.

I love the idea of trying to do the work of old-fashioned novelists of plotting and of really making you curious about what's going to happen next and all that, but also trying to load it up with your weird thoughts and opinions.

Henry VII's victory at Bosworth Field was one of the most astonishing political reverses in English history, the culmination of long-term plotting spearheaded by his formidable mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, the most successful politician in fifteenth-century England.