Quotes About Plot

So now you have it. The plot, the whole plot, and nothing but the plot.

Time is just 'one damn thing after another ', Margaret Atwood says. That sounds like conventional narrative plot. And at the end of our allotted time, we'll end up in one of those, a conventional plot I mean, unless we stipulate otherwise in our wills.

So someone either Trojan Horsed or Avon Ladied

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.

Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended.

I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.

For any film or any web show, the story dictates everything. If it is a good story, it obviously has good characters in it.

A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.

I think the great thing about the Jack Ryan films is that the plot and the story always take center stage. If you've done your job as the actor portraying Jack Ryan, you are present enough to make an impact, but you let the story shine.

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.

When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually canvases that artists use. And I keep all the characters' names on them. If you write a big novel, there's a lot of characters.

While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which those characters not only drive the plot, but also are instrumental in resolving whatever issue the plot deals with.

The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.

When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.

There's a writing adage that says, 'Write yourself into a corner.' My brother and I have always loved that adage.

Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. It's really fun to watch that.

For me, any story I tackle begins with the human relationships and not the plot.

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

We began to do little things, have little scenes where we just talked about things that had nothing to do with the plot. In fact, in the beginning, they didn't want us to do that. But as time went on, you see that in so many shows. I think we were the first to do that.

If they'd had proof of what he'd tried to do, Porfirio wouldn't have lived long enough to die in an explosion.

Why," he began slowly, "is Victor Dashkov joining us?" "Well, it's kind of a funny story .

A good plot is like a dream.

There might be something in what the man says, even if he is a Hindu mystic. He was once Dr. Richard Alpert, clinical psychologist, after all – and some of Washington's explanations of the war in Vietnam and more recent wars have sounded, at least to me, suspiciously like Tyrone's notions concerning the worldwide plot against his balls.