Quotes About Plot

A story that fails to get started always has the same problem: there is no conflict!

When we don't want anything, or, perhaps, when we cannot exactly define what we want, we become characters in a story with no plot.

Once you know the formulas, you can predict the path most stories will take.

I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. . . . Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It's about words. It's about a man dealing with life. Okay?

I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. What's it about? Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It's about words. It's about a man dealing with life. Okay?

As The Register of Santa Ana, California, would report, Prowse had a habit of "giving away plot secrets." "He doesn't mean to," Hamill says. "He just has this real child-like quality to please." "David talks his head off," Kershner says.

So a story starts with change, which leads to a goal, which raises a story question in the reader's mind. But how do you end the novel? You do so by answering the story question you posed at the outset.

Wake up, old man. He plans more than a cheat. He plans a hit. I know. I can read it in his eyes.

Mobile phones would have wrecked the plots of most of Shakespeare's plays.

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Now, here I am, a stranded woman marching down a spooky, remote road with no one to hear me scream. I'm in a damned plot for B horror flick!

But, when to Sin our byast Nature leans, The carefull Devil is still at hand with means; And providently Pimps for ill desires: The Good old Cause reviv'd, a Plot requires. Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up Common-wealths, and ruin Kings.

I am currently reading, The Broker by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better

Darnley's dagger was left in the corpse, to signify his connivance in the plot.

Huntly had planned to attack the town, burn down the house where he was staying and assassinate Maitland in his sleep.

DARNLEY'S MURDER involved three distinct elements: a conspiracy, a crime and a cover-up.

By October 12, she had decided to destroy him.

Darnley was utterly confident that he had pulled off a coup.

and Mary was to lure Darnley to his fate at Kirk o'Field.

THE DAY BEFORE Darnley's assassination was one of the happiest Mary could remember.

David [Rizzio], with the consent of the king, shall have his throat cut within these ten days.

Two letters would be about Darnley's murder

Assassination One

AT EIGHT O'CLOCK on the fatal Saturday evening, Darnley led Lord Ruthven and an accomplice through his private apartments