Quotes About Plot

First: Character is king. There are probably fewer than six books every century remembered specifically for their plots. People remember characters. Same with television. Who remembers the Lone Ranger? Everybody. Who remembers any actual Lone Ranger story lines? Nobody.

First: Character is king. There are probably fewer than six books every century remembered specifically for their plots. People remember characters. Same with television. Who remembers the Lone Ranger? Everybody. Who remembers any actual Lone Ranger story lines? Nobody. So

conclusions. First: Character is king. There are probably fewer than six books every century remembered specifically for their plots. People remember characters. Same with television. Who remembers the Lone Ranger? Everybody. Who remembers any actual Lone Ranger story lines? Nobody.

She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets!

I must make a plan," he murmured aloud.

Where is the character coming from? What's motivating the character? What's the central conflict? Who's the antagonist? This is Act One development.

You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.

A TV show is its characters. When you describe a TV show, you're describing the characters and the situation they're in.

God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.

Do you think that, if I did, I would lead you to the answer inch by inch, like a dramatist or a novelist?

Plot happens outside but story happens inside. Readers won't get the true story, though, unless you put it on the page--both the big meaning in small events, and the overlooked implications of large plot turns.

If I could kill Kearn, it would be quite a setback to the empire. I'd be

holding cell Brad and Tessa were in,

If all things work together for good for them that love God and are called according to His purpose, then this means that billions of plot points are going to come together in the most satisfying cathartic release possible at the end of all time.

The 2001 season, you couldn't go write that script because nobody would believe you.

Lives are like novels. Plot, character, and tone are all part of the devices we employ: Aim to be a contributor and not a detractor to the story.

A story is a succession of motivations and reactions.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Life is like a B-picture script.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

There was word that a Secret Service man and a Dallas policeman were dead—so the plot must be widespread.

Drills and explosives did what Willie believed all technologies did: They killed feeling. By assassinating time and space under the guise of saving them, they keep people out of touch when the better state of being, according to Willie and others, is in touch. In his more delirious screeds, Willie claimed that industrialization was a Christian plot to destroy the pagan reflex between sensation and emotion.