Quotes About Plot

A strong story will carry weak animation, but the most polished animation can't save a weak story.

did not have to read books to know that the theme of life is conflict and pain. Instinctively, all my clowning was based on this. My means of contriving comedy plot was simple. It was the process of getting people in and out of trouble.

If the military knew about vampires, and it knew about a few of the other less conventional brands of humanity, too, then what was the big plot? They obviously weren't trying to recruit us, which was sort of a shame. I imagined a full unit of vampire soldiers and I got a little giddy, and distracted. Bad idea, maybe. But it'd be epic, wouldn't it?

Plot is the series of events that keep your characters together until issues are resolved at the end of the book.

Conflict must be personalized to the character. If you don't know your story people and motivate them, you won't have a strong conflict. A vague or general motivating force produces a vague and general plot. Being specific will increase the emotional intensity of your story.

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a Plot of God. --Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka

Any reader unable to distinguish between the historical and fictional elements of the plot is urged to seek professional help as quickly as possible.

To be sure, every football play is in a sense a short narrative. First come the signals of the quarterback. That is the preliminary exposition. Then the plot thickens, action becomes intense and a climax is reached whereby the mood of tragedy or comedy is established.

metaphysical emotion, is a plot to nothingness

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.

If you look closer, if you go slowly, there can be story even without progress or plot, life in small change, like Dante and Beatrice, like fish swimming hard against the current just to stay where they are. They're not getting anywhere, neither Dante nor the fish, but that doesn't mean there isn't effort, growth, triumph, and beautiful poetry. Trust me, stasis is challenging. And challenge is story.

As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.

writers instinctively tried to generate plots from events around them as a means of survival, the way a pigeon is always searching for food, pecking at everything in sight. A spy lacked the imagination or the drive for that kind of free-association creativity.

Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there's an explosion—that's Plot.

A mystery is solved with a story.

These brats know a lot of words,' Shirley said, in her ridiculously fake high voice. 'They're book addicts. But we can still create an accident and win the fortune!

Most field trips contain sinister plots.

Count Olaf was so obsessed with getting his filthy hands on the money that he hatched a devious plan that gives me nightmares to this day.

Nobody knows what an idea will do when it goes off to entertain itself, particularly if the idea comes from a sinister villain.

Mcguffin," Sunny said, which meant "Your scheming means nothing in this place.

I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.

Know your death stakes! This is going to be crucial in order for you to write your novel from the middle.

A further tip: Delay as much exposition as you can for the first 10 percent of your novel. If you can create a mystery about it, even better. But understand that the readers will wait a long time before getting answers as long as they are caught up in a solid plot.