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Plot Quotes

It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I’d been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining Picture Quote #1

Is it possible Hanukkah doesn’t inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There’s Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense Picture Quote #1

In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What’s the worst thing that could happen? But you’re playing it for comic effect. It’s a similar muscle being used with Black Mirror Picture Quote #1

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president Picture Quote #1

With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, ‘Bleak House’ is, for many readers, Dickens’s greatest novel Picture Quote #1

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? Picture Quote #1

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Fanboys are a creator’s blessing and curse. If a fanboy likes you, they love you. Obsessively. If you cross them with some plot point or story direction they reject, expect to be wholly and continually eviscerated across the Internet Picture Quote #1

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you ‘flesh out and clothe’ your structure that makes each story unique Picture Quote #1

Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called ‘Les Mains d’Orlac.’ Call it a bastard offspring of ‘Frankenstein;’ its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn’t Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts Picture Quote #1

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can’t figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times Picture Quote #1

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back Picture Quote #1

I feel that the characters in my book, if they were real, would be like, Seriously, another plot twist? Picture Quote #1

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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together Picture Quote #1

The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it’s a very simple plot - there’s only one white whale in the ocean. When you’re a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it’s unique: it’s happening only to you Picture Quote #1

Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting Picture Quote #1

Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they’re the building blocks of what makes a story work Picture Quote #1

There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. After that we stayed in a rented house for the next 15 years Picture Quote #1

A few years ago, I was trying to buy a piece of land next to a house I had in Newfoundland. I discovered that the plot had been owned by a family, and the son had gone off to World War I and been killed. It began to interest me: What would have happened on that land if the son had lived, had brought up his own family there? Picture Quote #1

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And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out Picture Quote #1

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she’s a strong character. She does change the plot. She’ll often rescue the male character from some situation Picture Quote #1

There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you’re miserable and working out Picture Quote #1

There is nothing that’s been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn’t been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’m certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they’re valid components of a novel and you can’t complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character Picture Quote #1

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The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot Picture Quote #1

I had to write something and couldn’t think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella’s character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages Picture Quote #1

Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot Picture Quote #1

The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message. We will bring to justice those who plot to attack the United States of America Picture Quote #1

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It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I’d been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining. (Plot Quotes) Is it possible Hanukkah doesn’t inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There’s Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense. (Plot Quotes) In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What’s the worst thing that could happen? But you’re playing it for comic effect. It’s a similar muscle being used with Black Mirror. (Plot Quotes) The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president (Plot Quotes) With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, ‘Bleak House’ is, for many readers, Dickens’s greatest novel. (Plot Quotes) Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? (Plot Quotes) Fanboys are a creator’s blessing and curse. If a fanboy likes you, they love you. Obsessively. If you cross them with some plot point or story direction they reject, expect to be wholly and continually eviscerated across the Internet. (Plot Quotes) Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you ‘flesh out and clothe’ your structure that makes each story unique. (Plot Quotes) Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called ‘Les Mains d’Orlac.’ Call it a bastard offspring of ‘Frankenstein;’ its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn’t Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts. (Plot Quotes) Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can’t figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times. (Plot Quotes) Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back. (Plot Quotes) I feel that the characters in my book, if they were real, would be like, Seriously, another plot twist? (Plot Quotes) All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together. (Plot Quotes) The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it’s a very simple plot - there’s only one white whale in the ocean. When you’re a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it’s unique: it’s happening only to you. (Plot Quotes) Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting. (Plot Quotes) Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they’re the building blocks of what makes a story work. (Plot Quotes) There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. After that we stayed in a rented house for the next 15 years. (Plot Quotes) A few years ago, I was trying to buy a piece of land next to a house I had in Newfoundland. I discovered that the plot had been owned by a family, and the son had gone off to World War I and been killed. It began to interest me: What would have happened on that land if the son had lived, had brought up his own family there? (Plot Quotes) And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out. (Plot Quotes) In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she’s a strong character. She does change the plot. She’ll often rescue the male character from some situation. (Plot Quotes) There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you’re miserable and working out. (Plot Quotes) There is nothing that’s been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn’t been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot. (Plot Quotes) 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. (Plot Quotes) I’m certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they’re valid components of a novel and you can’t complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character. (Plot Quotes) The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined. (Plot Quotes) 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. (Plot Quotes) My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot (Plot Quotes) I had to write something and couldn’t think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella’s character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages. (Plot Quotes) Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot. (Plot Quotes) The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message. We will bring to justice those who plot to attack the United States of America. (Plot Quotes)

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