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Plot Quotes

Now up and atom it’s on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what’s strange is nobody knew my name Picture Quote #1

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes Picture Quote #1

I’ve got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure’s not Picture Quote #1

Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it Picture Quote #1

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it’s a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect Picture Quote #1

Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around Picture Quote #1

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Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page Picture Quote #1

Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel Picture Quote #1

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don’t then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story Picture Quote #1

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don’t know the plot. They don’t know their own individual plot... they don’t know what’s going to happen to them Picture Quote #1

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes Picture Quote #1

Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace Picture Quote #1

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This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be Picture Quote #1

What must novel dialogue... really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It must express character. It must advance plot. During dialogue, the characters confront one another. The confrontation is in itself an occasion. Each one of these occasions, throughout the novel, is unique Picture Quote #1

Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful: 1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot. 2. The author must feel a passionate urge to write it. 3. He must have the conviction, or at least the illusion, that he is the only one who can handle this particular theme Picture Quote #1

If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there’s no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don’t read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists Picture Quote #1

Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you’d like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn’t, or couldn’t, do Picture Quote #1

I’ve learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot Picture Quote #1

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Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that’s in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour’s prize Picture Quote #1

I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted to stay. It was really a great working environment Picture Quote #1

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that Picture Quote #1

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters Picture Quote #1

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen Picture Quote #1

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved Picture Quote #1

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To make a bank was a great plot of state; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate Picture Quote #1

If the audience never understands the plot, it can be counted on to be attentive to the very end Picture Quote #1

In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole Picture Quote #1

At about eight o’clock one evening of the early summer a group of men were seated on a grass plot overlooking a broad river. The sun was just setting through the forest fringe directly behind them Picture Quote #1

This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot Picture Quote #1

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write Picture Quote #1

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Now up and atom it’s on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what’s strange is nobody knew my name (Plot Quotes) Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes (Plot Quotes) I’ve got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure’s not (Plot Quotes) Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it (Plot Quotes) When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it’s a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect (Plot Quotes) Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around (Plot Quotes) Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page (Plot Quotes) Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel (Plot Quotes) Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don’t then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story (Plot Quotes) Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don’t know the plot. They don’t know their own individual plot... they don’t know what’s going to happen to them (Plot Quotes) You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes (Plot Quotes) Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace (Plot Quotes) This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be (Plot Quotes) What must novel dialogue... really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It must express character. It must advance plot. During dialogue, the characters confront one another. The confrontation is in itself an occasion. Each one of these occasions, throughout the novel, is unique (Plot Quotes) Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful: 1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot. 2. The author must feel a passionate urge to write it. 3. He must have the conviction, or at least the illusion, that he is the only one who can handle this particular theme (Plot Quotes) If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there’s no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don’t read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists (Plot Quotes) Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you’d like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn’t, or couldn’t, do (Plot Quotes) I’ve learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot (Plot Quotes) Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that’s in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour’s prize (Plot Quotes) I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted to stay. It was really a great working environment (Plot Quotes) I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that (Plot Quotes) Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters (Plot Quotes) In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen (Plot Quotes) Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved (Plot Quotes) To make a bank was a great plot of state; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate (Plot Quotes) If the audience never understands the plot, it can be counted on to be attentive to the very end (Plot Quotes) In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole (Plot Quotes) At about eight o’clock one evening of the early summer a group of men were seated on a grass plot overlooking a broad river. The sun was just setting through the forest fringe directly behind them (Plot Quotes) This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot (Plot Quotes) I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write (Plot Quotes)

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