Quotes About Plot

I always have a plan," she said, rising her eyebrows. "Sometimes, even, a scheme. You should be taking lessons from me.

Reader, she didn't marry him,

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

I like 'Vampire Diaries' because it has great stories.

I very much use Bill Willingham's approach on 'Fables,' which is that rather than having an end point to a series, I have an end point for the various story lines.

While love stories at the end of the day, honestly speaking, do not vary a lot in their plots, it is their treatment that separates one from the other.

With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, 'Bleak House' is, for many readers, Dickens's greatest novel.

I don't like watching shows where all of a sudden you're like, what happened? They shot the last season in Las Vegas?

'Blood Host' is super heavy. Especially on the verses, it has an industrial stomp. It's one of my favourite tracks just because the plot of it is so heavy. It's a total crushing tune; it doesn't get any heavier than that main riff, just a straight quarter-note powerhouse.

Two minutes later she walked into my office carrying her own copy of the report. "What did you think?" she said, sliding into a chair and waving the pages. "I don't like his prose style," I said. "And the plot seems very familiar." "Don't be an asshole," she said. "I got a briefing in a half hour, and I need to have something to say to everybody." I

There was no mistake. The area on the map was a match for Dr. Margery Crean's home residence, a five-acre plot that included several outbuildings and a dog kennel. How had she missed this?

There should be no promise of a plot. Plot is extraordinary, while chance is ordinary.

I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

It takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it.

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.

'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.

Toda obra, toda novela, narra a través de la trama de los acontecimientos la historia de su propia creación, su propia historia.

Otto said: Try to figure out a way to kill us nicely. You can, of course, drop mother into the well, and maybe you could poison me somehow.

When Ráva?, dreaded warrior, knew The slaughter of his giant crew: Ráva?, the king, whose name of fear Earth, hell, and heaven all shook to hear: He bade the fiend Márícha aid The vengeful plot his fury laid. In vain the wise Márícha tried To turn him from his course aside: Not Ráva?'s self, he said, might hope

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction.

The cast is assembling; the plot thickens. Mother, Gordon, Sylvia. Jasper. Lisa. Mother will drop out before long, retiring gracefully and with minimum fuss after an illness in 1962. Others, as yet unnamed, will come and go. Some more than others; one above all. In life as in history the unexpected lies waiting, grinning from around corners. Only with hindsight are we wise about cause and effect.