Quotes About Plot

I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.

Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed.

They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.

You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!

If there's nothing interesting about a character, people leave because there's no desire to see what happens.

Writing a balanced, beautiful novel, where plot and character and setting and pacing and narrative structure and imagery and, above all, story work in harmony and true proportion, is fucking *hard*. --Nicola Griffith, www.strangehorizons.com/2003/20030929...

My imagination has problems with plot mechanics.

Plot is like Soylent Green: it's made of people.

They said it was all a plot to get rid of democracy and replace it with a dictatorship. That

The First Plot Point of your story is when the story's primary tension—its antagonistic force—makes its initial full frontal appearance in a form that imparts meaning and consequence to the story's hero, and in context to stakes you have already established

Remember—write this down, it's critical—nothing fuels a story quite like hope.

The mission of Part 1 is to set up the plot by creating stakes, backstory, and character empathy, while perhaps foreshadowing the forthcoming conflict.

and the priest, Pero Sánchez de la Reina, who had conspired with the Castilian captain.

They even revealed the existence of the plot to Magellan; they confided that if the plot succeded

Events moved on, and in July 1579, Elizabeth was nearly assassinated as she traveled on a barge along the Thames.

Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.

When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.