Quotes About Plot

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

Try not to mention more than three or four characters unless they're vital to the story. If you can't hook them with four characters you won't be able to do it with five or six.

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

A Russian television series called Sleepers, in which the United States is plotting to overthrow the Russian government, began airing in the fall of 2017. In the show, the U.S. ambassador is blond; his name is Michael. They haven't forgotten about me yet!)

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

Write your screenplays to raise, develop, and answer one central dramatic question so that your reader or audience will stay hooked.

Aristotle tells us that the plot should be so tight that if you took away any one incident, the whole would literally collapse:

There was a plot against him.

Any good movie is filled with secrets.

I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.

Tu sei un grande amico di Mo Yan e potresti suggerirgli questo espediente letterario: se, in un punto della trama, non si possiede una perfetta padronanza dei personaggi o un'adeguata tecnica espressiva, basta spingere tutti nell'acqua. In quel mondo il silenzio è più eloquente delle parole, è un elemento incolore più vivido dei colori stessi: per un momento lui dovrebbe far finta che l'azione si stia svolgendo sul fondo dell'acqua

Or else you're just trying to get me eater," Zoë said. Phil looked started. "Zoë, if I wanted you eaten, I would have done the job myself. Setting up a elaborate plan to get you eaten is way more work than I would prefer to expend." -"Someday you'll get a sense of humor. Let's go", she said.

I'm getting tired of Nancy Drew," I told my mother. "The books are all the same." Once I'd become attuned to the pattern of each plot, it became glaringly obvious how alike they were. Mom nodded sagely. "You've discovered the difference between good literature and trash.

Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don't know the characters and can't make sense of the plot.

Real life was like a plot by Dickens . . .

He believed that human beings were inside a story that had no ending because its teller had started it without conceiving of one, and that after ten thousand tales was no nearer to finding the resolution of the last page. Story was the stuff of life, and to realise you were inside one allowed you to sometimes surrender to the plot, to bear a little easier the griefs and suffering and to enjoy more fully the twists that came along the way.

Improvvisamente sono quasi accecato dalle mille possibilità che mi offre una trama, mi toglie quasi il respiro.

The basic principle of Western staff notation is that passing time is represented through a series of marks arranged from left to right on the page. Within the five lines of the staff (or stave), notes are arrayed from high to low. So a score is a kind of two-dimensional plot in which the horizontal axis is time and vertical one is pitch;

Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

What the tanuki doesn't realize is that people who affect to believe all our nonsense often harbor evil and insidious plots in their hearts

Todo el mal que puede desplegarse en el mundo se esconde en un nido de traidores». FRANCESCO PETRARCA

There are three things that any scene in a book or short story can do: (1) It can advance the plot, (2) It can explain the background or backstory, or (3) It can deepen the characterization.

We must set out, often without a destination, with only the instinct to search as a direction. Literature and religion are predicated on the notion of journey, movement—pilgrimage it's called in religion, plot in literature.