Quotes About Plot

I am much more aware of making the plot more original, avoiding contrivance, having the story matter much more. I used to think more about symbols consciously. Now I think much more about the story.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.

It would take an extremely unattractive person to think of that." --Nero Wolfe, on the plot of "Cordially Invited to Meet Death" by Rex Stout, p. 159 of 192

Viola Duday herded Sarah Jaffee to a far corner for a tête-à-tête.

The best my head could do was let in a wild idea about the four of them taking turns with the window pole, presumably with Mrs. Demarest along to keep count of the jabs.

De todos modos el destino había empezado a armar su trama, a tejer su intriga, a anudar en un punto los hilos sueltos de aquello que los antiguos griegos han llamado el muthos.

Through all the drama—whether damned or not—Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.

I have a cunning plan.

Baldrick: Have you got a plan, my lord? Blackadder: Yes I have, and it's so cunning you can brush your teeth with it!

Hell is a conspiracy, and the first requirement of a conspiracy is that it remain underground.

Someone who doesn't even know she's been invented, staying game in the face of the inescapable plot.

The concoction of the Protocols was probably the work of the head of the czarist secret police outside Russia, a Paris-based agent named Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky. Borrowing and paraphrasing Machiavelli's speeches without even bothering to change their order and attributing them to a secret Jewish council, Rachkovsky was attempting to discredit Russian liberalism by showing it to be a Jewish plot.

Life had made the plot over and over again, to the extent that I knew it by heart.

Since I was a girl I always felt as if I would like to write stories. I never had that ambition or shine to make a name; first place because I knew what time and labor it meant to acquire a literary style. Second place, because whenever I wanted to write a story I never could think of a plot.

Where do I start? Revolutions to plot. Enemies to crush. Handsome men to rescue.

Now take Prince Temnos to Princess Berenise. We need him in our custody in order to succeed.

I have plotted Lombroso's findings in figure 4-3, and it can be seen that he found peaks of productivity in the late spring and early fall.

a mathematician is someone for whom mathematics is a soap opera.

Now I was standing in a forest grove with a witch, a half-demon, a vampire, and a shaman, planning to put an end to a nefarious plot to usurp our powers and alter the path of humankind. Talk about your conspiracy theories.

The types who planned an insurrection against Roosevelt in the thirties

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Feared by their breed and famous by their birth.

O conspiracy!Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,When evils are most free?

Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;And now I'll do 't: and so he goes to heaven;And so I am reveng'd.