Quotes About Plot

The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

the most important element in the entire process was story, story, story. "It's always the good story," he said. "It doesn't matter how many ships you blow up, how many missiles you fire, how many fights or disasters or stunts you show. Is it a good story? Is it something you can take home with

Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.

Organizing a coup was not the same as wanting one.

A third discussed a 1990s plot by the Rex Deus leaders to marry Princess Diana to Bill Clinton (after killing off Hillary) in an effort to control the Western world.

But most good movies have a gun in them.

La trama è roba per gente morta.

The entire plan was there in shimmering hot pink ink. "It looks like a My Little Pony murder plot," Mary Alice said. "Jesus, is that glitter?" "I like it," Natalie said loyally. "I find it hard to take us seriously as agents of vengeance when our plot looks like a kindergarten craft project.

I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.

Dreams are like drama, they unfold the story on the stage.

I wanted to know the denouement of your life story. I have no interest in the narrative.

The government is not interested in a foreign plot. It has its perpetrators and they don't want anyone or anything complicating it," Cannistraro postulated in a bold departure from his previous fence-sitting comportment

Either it's a good plot or it isn't. And if it's not a good plot, the best writing isn't going to help. And if it is, the worst writing isn't going to hurt it.

I just care about the story. Either it's a good plot or it isn't. And if it's not a good plot, the best writing isn't going to help. And if it is, the worst writing isn't going to hurt it.

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.

In their opinion, a tragedy with so little plot could not conform with the rules of drama. I enquired whether they were complaining that they had found my play boring. I was told that none of them was bored, that they were often touched by it, and that they would go and see it again with pleasure. What more do they want?

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

In-laws were often used as plot devices to drive a happy couple apart, to destroy marital love and trust.

Maybe I can drown him in the lily pond.

I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.

I want you to kill the man that my husband hired to kill the man that I hired to kill my husband.

the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author's emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And because few people talk about whether a young adult work is commercial or literary; the two are still in sync, and everyone's benefitting.

Motivation is the power behind plot.

Treason is always a conspiracy; it's too big a task for one man, and throughout history has been the work of groups.