Quotes About Plot

When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists. But if we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret.

Someone is out there, I said. Someone who has been manipulating the events. Playing puppet master, stirring the pot, stacking the deck - Mixing metaphors? Thomas suggested.

I hate dreams like this," I said. "There's no plot—just random weird things happening. I get enough of that when I'm awake.

I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.

A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one's advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

Thousands more must be staring into darkness like us, gripped by scandalous thoughts, extravagant hopes, and forbidden plots. We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a character's predicament, but never to solve his problems.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Christmas is not a story birthed of a humanized god for it simply doesn't fit into the rubric of such an emaciated plot.

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

There's a plot afoot all right, and I'll gladly name the forces propelling it—hysteria, ignorance, malice, stupidity, hatred, and fear.

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

It doesn't matter if you call it magic or determination. It doesn't matter if you make a spell or a plot. You have to make up your mind what you want, and have the courage to set your heart on it. You will be Queen of England, your husband is the king. Through you, the Yorks regain the throne of England that is their right. Walk through your sorrow, my daughter, it hardly matters as long as you walk to where you want to be.

She is defeated, and her husband is vanquished. But everyone knows that she will not accept her defeat, she will plot and scheme for her son, just as Edward told me that I must plot and scheme for ours. She will never stop until she is back in England and the battle is drawn up again. She will never stop until her husband is dead, her son is dead, and she has no one left to put on the throne. This is what it means to be Queen of England in this country today. This

I just know she's going to go there today and sneak down in that cellar." "So?" said Jake. "Then what?" asked Josh. So? Then what? After all his brilliant work luring Caroline to the cellar, his brothers didn't know what to do? "What do you mean, then what?" squawked Wally. And he suddenly realized he didn't know either. He put his imagination on fast-forward.

no one would believe the goblins were eventually going to attempt to kill her.

because real life was plotted like Tolkien on methamphetamine

Scotty leaned across the table and whispered in a voice Travis wasn't supposed to have heard but did. "We've got to do something quick before Uncle Travis poisons us

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.