Quotes About Plot

You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together.

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

Protector was one face of their power, but destroyer was still the other face. And neither one put your fate in their hands. They protected what was theirs, to protect or destroy and sometimes the plot was about his grief that he'd failed to protect or his revenge against other men and sometimes he'd destroyed her himself. And the story was still about him.

In comics, the violent death of a woman as a plot device in a story focused on a man was so common that women coined a term for it - fridging, after the 1999 website, women in refrigerators documenting the plethora of gruesome endings for female characters.

Lee infiltrated the plot to kill President Kennedy, was set up as the patsy, and was then murdered to protect the real assassins by silencing him.

So one might say that there was a second conspiracy to make it look like there was no conspiracy at first; and directed by a man who was apparently a major player in both!

was working "penetration" on behalf of U.S. intelligence and was not only infiltrating, but attempting to preclude, a plot against the life of President Kennedy.

You know what you stupid fucking conspiracy assholes just don't get? No one is that well organized. There is no big Deep State evil, no Corporate Earth Plot to Enslave Humanity. It's just a bunch of conflicting interests making a fucking mess wherever they go.

So the story of Wild Fox Kang's attempted coup and murder of Cixi lay in darkness and obscurity for nearly a century, until the 1980s, when Chinese scholars discovered in Japanese archives the testimony of the designated killer, Bi, which established beyond doubt the existence of the plot.

had there not been concealed in my mask from the beginning a scheme of revenge?

Man's best friend is a really good plan!

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.

Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for the immortals!

I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

It's very difficult to kill somebody in a movie, unless it was an accident.

A girl is just like a movie, you want to know what happends next, and how it will end...

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

A baby is a symbol of peace, a plot of dreams, a light of hope, and a bundle of joy.

I asked: "And I was very surprised by the ending. Were you?" "Of course not—I'd read it first.

It would be the twentieth century before the opening of the British Headquarters Papers at the University of Michigan proved what the eighteenth century refused to believe that a young and beautiful woman was capable of helping Benedict Arnold plot the greatest conspiracy of the American Revolution and then completely fooling the astute warriors around her.

The difference between a live play and a dead one is that in the former the characters control the plot, while in the latter the plot controls the characters.

Shortly after we were in bed I began my story, but made it so absurd, so long, and so tiresome, that, as my intention was, I sent her to sleep, and should have gone to sleep myself - but dark plots are ever wakeful. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")