Plot Quotes - Page 11

• The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?

  Graham Greene

  Fiction, Remember, Ends

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• As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

  Andre Dubus

  Philosophy, Writing, Character

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• Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is.

  John Eldredge

  Fog, Play, Important

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• There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Driving, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Elizabeth George

  Character, Events, Challenging The Status Quo

  Elizabeth George (2011). “Write Away: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life: One Novelist's Approach To Fiction and the Writing Life”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Trey Anastasio

  Character, Journey, Musical

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• He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Age, Tasks

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.69, 谷月社

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• He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

  Francis Bacon

  Age, Decay, Ciphers

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• The romance is the primary plot in a story that has two plots. The second plot is not a subplot, but one that is interwoven with the romance plot (if that makes sense.) A story needs compelling characters in a compelling plot.

  Madeline Hunter

  Character, Two, Romance

  Source: writerunboxed.com

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• I think people got in touch with me either knowing my work, or probably more frequently just knowing a plot or sort of buzz about something I did and sort of saying, "Get that guy that writes the crazy stuff in here."

  Mark Leyner

  Crazy, Writing, Thinking

  "Whit Stillman and Mark Leyner on Their First Projects in 15 Years". Interview with Matthew Perpetua, www.rollingstone.com. April 6, 2012.

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• I wanted to make a film about anorexia. I thought about it for a long time, but then gave up on this idea as I felt that this theme would be so hermetic and closed that it would not reach an audience. However, the plot about the character of Olga and the idea that a body has a lot of different meanings were still present in my mind.

  Malgorzata Szumowska

  Character, Ideas, Long

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made a mistake with that assumption. It was really, really hard because you pull a few things apart and then you realise how everything relies on everything else and it can all fall apart.

  Ben Affleck

  Mistake, Fall, Lines

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The books people are writing today, they're too long. You get a little bit of plot, and then pages and pages of Creative Writing. They teach classes in how to do this. They should teach classes in how to stop!

  Douglas Adams

  Book, Writing, Class

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• The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in theatre is- that you can be watching this thing happening with actors and costumes and light and set and language, and even plot, and something emerges from beyond that, and that's the image part that I'm looking for, that sort of added dimension.

  Sam Shepard

  Light, Theatre, Actors

  Sam Shepard (1984). “Fool for Love and Other Plays”, Bantam Books

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• I always feel funny when I don't reveal things, especially to you [the press], who have supported us so much and are really the big reason we're here. But, we hold back information about the plot because we want to reward the fans for sticking with us, and that's so much fun. That's the funnest part of it.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Fun, Fans, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

  Deborah Smith

  Reading, Long, Together

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.

  Richard Hell

  Writing, Fiction, Hassle

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think I was annoyed going through the '90s just as a guy who loves music. There wasn't a lot of music for me. Everything was groove driven. We lost the plot with the melody. There's no more melody.

  Michael Buble

  Thinking, Guy, Annoyed

  "Patiences pays off for Michael Buble". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 26, 2007.

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• If, technologically, it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system where the encryption is so strong that there's no key - there's no door at all - then how do we apprehend the child pornographer? How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot?

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Children, Keys

  "Snooper's charter would set bad example to the world, says SNP" by Rowena Mason and Alan Travis, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2016.

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• My supporters and family have limited resources, very limited resources; but the FBI has the unlimited resources of the most powerful government in the world today. It's amazing that they haven't successfully had me assassinated since I have been in here. There have been plots uncovered in the past that I know of to have me killed.

  Leonard Peltier

  Powerful, Past, Government

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.

  Julie Carmen

  Rights, Evil, World

  "The Right to Follow Your Bliss by Julie Carmen". ORIGIN Magazine, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.

  James Franco

  Focus, Quirky, Lows

  "James Franco’s Movie Column: Civil War Meets Mumblecore in ‘Men Go To Battle’". www.indiewire.com. July 7, 2016.

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• I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.

  Jack Canfield

  Paranoid, Well Being, Wells

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• Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness that's in high places." It's in "high places" that the plot against Black and Brown, and poor White is going on; it's spiritual wickedness that's way up in the ruling classes of religious people who don't want to see the little man rise. It's the principalities and the powers.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Spiritual, Religious, War

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know under what terms - but, for a large section of the old slave plantation. He established himself - sisters and brothers, cousins, etc. on fifty- and sixty-acre plots.

  Ella Baker

  Cousin, Brother, Grandfather

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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