Quotes About Plot

Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.

Good drama is all about creating conflict.

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

I wasn't interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

The drive . . . is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope . . . .

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic story. Economics is really what drives the plot.

Ingeniously plotted and executed, Print the Legend is an epic masterpiece from Craig McDonald. Beginning to end, I was riveted by this story of character, history and intrigue.

It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history.

I have a plot, but not much happens.

God is the creator of all good plot twists!

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Your life will have chapters, complete with crazy characters, villains and a plot you can't even imagine as you sit here today. It's a lot like a Scooby Doo episode.

Anaemia is an illness primarily affecting characters in novels.

Beware: I'm unafraid to host a big spoiler party--a novel that can be truly "spoiled" by the summary of its plot is a novel that was already spoiled by that plot.

plots for the destruction of the United States government. "A desperate turn towards evil had come," she wrote, after hearing her brother damn the United States and

The French word for "plot," trame , also means "heft" or "weave.

On November 18 of alternate years Mr Earbrass begins writing 'his new novel'. Weeks ago he chose its title at random from a list of them he keeps in a little green note-book. It being tea-time of the 17th, he is alarmed not to have thought of a plot to which The Unstrung Harp might apply.

All vampires use self-hypnosis to avoid seeing themselves as they really are, but Histrionics are virtuosos of self-deception. Like stage magicians, they divert their own awareness away from the strings and wires that hold their personalities together. They simply do not see anything in themselves that they consider inappropriate or unlovable. Their image of themselves is like a series of attractive still photos, scenes from a movie with no overall plot to hold them together.