Quotes About Plot

A Plot Point is defined as any incident, episode, or event that hooks into the action and spins it around in another direction—

Story determines structure; structure doesn't determine story.

Director of the CIA was aware of a terrorist group's plan to bomb the Washington, D.C., metro system. He let the bombing occur, in order to gain congressional approval for the use of extreme measures against that group.

I'm rereading Jenny Offill's 'Dept. of Speculation.' I love it, and she's just a magician. Line by line and paragraph by paragraph, it's mesmerizing and so intricately plotted and so nimble.

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.

I don't like spoilers. I don't like things being spoiled.

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.

Just like many Popish Plotters before them, these had promptly begun to "commit suicide" in the Tower. One had even managed the heroic feat of cutting his own throat all the way to the vertebrae!

If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you're never really afraid for her because you know she's not going to die.

The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.

You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

With most other genres, you need movie stars. With horror, you just need a story.

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

Writing a mystery is more difficult than other kinds of books because a mystery has a certain framework that must be superimposed over the story.

If we think about what mystery entails as a genre, certainly a big part of it is a resolution.

Although we might think of Holmes as the Ur-sleuth, the seminal inspiration for many writers comes not from the chronicles of Baker Street but from the intricately plotted novels of Charles Dickens and his colleague Wilkie Collins, who in works like 'Bleak House' and 'The Moonstone' established the modern, character-driven mystery novel.

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

I'm looking for a charismatic character - somebody who you just want to look at and listen to and whom the camera likes. I'm also looking for a narrative arc: Something is going to happen, and there will be a question that will make you wonder what happens at the end.

What's important is how the character drives the narrative.

I confess, a wall of worry rises for even the most confident fool when he realizes that his plot for saving the day lies with three squirrels, a troupe of earnest nitwits, a donkey-headed weaver, a silver-thirsty goblin, a notoriously unreliable narrator, and a hat-shagging monkey.

The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart. ...

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