Quotes of: Plot Keyword

Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today.

Before the Next Draft; 26 Plot Steps to Revision Plot eBook

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

Jim Jarmusch

'Rozabal' was theological while 'Chanakya' is political. Unlike 'Rozabal,' which was about research, the aim of 'Chanakya' is plot, plot, plot, which carries the character. The common DNA, of course, is history.

Ashwin Sanghi

Character is plot, plot is character.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.

Juliet Marillier

In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish

They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

Gravity's Rainbow

Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan's writing, the way he develops and expresses ideas and character. Plot does not define stor...

Warren Ellis

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

Margaret Weis

A page a day means I need to focus on a gag a day, and that's great for laughs but bad for plot, and I'm primarily a plot guy.

Doug TenNapel

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

Jeffery Deaver

Professor Jules Hilbert: [walking to pool] Some plots are moved forward by external events and crises. Others are moved forward by the characters themselves. If I go through that door, the plot continues. The story of me through the door. If I stay h...

Stranger Than Fiction

Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot.

Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast

Does rejection ever get any easier? Only if we decide not to invest emotion in the dismissal…

Blockbuster Plots: Pure & Simple

Not only a great game, 'Uncharted 2' raised the bar for storytelling for the medium. The game treated action as a part of the overall story rather than a way to move from plot point to plot point.

Rob Manuel

Character and Plot...Character and Plot Some writers have it and some do not This I'll tell you Brother You can't have one without the other

Johnny Flora

The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.

Graham Nelson

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

Umberto Eco

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an a...

Ray Bradbury

Beginning hook readers. Endings create fans.

The Plot Whisperer: Secrets of Story Structure Any Writer Can Master

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

Lisa Unger