Quotes About Plot

openly told his crew that the conspirators had resolved to kill him on Easter Day

The discovery suggested that an ambush might be in the making.

There are three "real" people in the book. The mayor of New York, David Matthews, actually did participate in the conspiracy to assassinate Washington. Thomas Hickey was a member of Washington's Life Guards, and was hung for his part in the assassination plot. And Dr. Abraham van Buskirk, the Loyalist sympathizer who sheltered Mr. Lockwood, truly was a doctor in New Jersey.

that's where Fredric Brown spent his later years." "Fredric Brown? Our Fredric Brown?" "We were on the bus together." "You and Fredric Brown." "Right." "On a bus in Tucson." "When he was trying to work out a plot," I said, "he would ride buses all night, and thoughts would come to him." "I'll bet they would. 'Why am I up so late? What am I doing on this broken-down rattletrap?

Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a science fiction novel emerges from the cosmic mix.

Never and nowhere was there a shortage of people eager to find a logic to their unhappiness, humiliating defeats and life frustrations by pinning the blame on someone's malevolent intentions and fiendish plots.

When another American, Francis Ford Coppola, tried to put the blood lust of that war on film, where did he turn for the plot of his Apocalypse Now? To Joseph Conrad, who had seen it all, a century earlier, in the Congo.

Told you, said Mick. Things comin' together. We set off lookin' for the Utz kids an' find a tree full o' everybody. That's magic, too. It's like a story. Same thing. The universe don't like plot. Story is magic's way o' telling the universe to sod off. That's good then, right? said Scott. After this episode with Emily, he was ready for some optimism. Magic wants us all to live happily ever after. Not necessarily, Mick answered. Magic likes a good tragedy, too.

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.

Mr. Dortmunder, this is too good a story to just jump in and tell the end." Dortmunder hated stories that were that good, but

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

When tension and immediacy combine, the story begins.

Your job is to learn to create drama. Once you can do that, you can do anything.

If I could get hold of something nasty and drop it in the coffee urn, I could poison them all." "Too bad your personality's not water-soluble.

the most likely explanation is that there was indeed a plot, however imperfect, to endanger the Lusitania in order to involve the United States in the war.

most likely explanation is that there was indeed a plot, however imperfect, to endanger the Lusitania in order to involve the United States in the war.

has lost the only audience for whom the plot in which he was performing was valid. He is left in the hopeless despair of the actor who knows only one set of lines and loses the one audience who wants to hear it

That has nothing to do with the story.