Quotes About Narrative

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence.

I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.

The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven.

I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.

I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.

For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters.

I think plot is very overrated. Plot is obviously necessary, but what I really care about is emotionally affecting the audience. Having a thought myself and then an emotional experience myself, somehow transferring that to the audience.

Use plot to buttress a story.

I'm very good at plot.

I really don't care about plot. I really, really don't.

You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.

My parents and I always look at movies and just think, 'What's missing?' from the plot to the people of color or diversity in general.

When it comes to a character, I make sure that it adds to the plot.

Character, story and plot are affected by any action sequence so you have to really design them accordingly.

I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.

I always like to think of music as if you were to turn the picture off, actually. Just by listening to the piece of music, there's a story there and a connection to the characters and the plots and all of that.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

I hate plots.