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• I've made the decision to adhere to three general truths when it comes to my novels: There will be a love-story element to the story, the novel will be set in eastern North Carolina, and the characters will be likeable. Then, I make each novel unique through differences in voice, perspective, age and personalities of the characters, and of course, plot.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Character, Unique, Voice

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

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• I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

  Barry Hannah

  Different, Care, Want

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

  Barry Hannah

  Stories, Language, Ends

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• In Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to confess the Jewish plot. Because in Fascism, you are guilty for your whole being.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Ideas, Guilty, Fascism

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.

  Tom Johnson

  Character, Thinking, Important

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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• I always begin with a source of inspiration that comes from nature. The story comes from my research, volunteering, and meeting the people involved in that story world. I am an intuitive writer and an image, sound, experience can all inspire a scene or a plot twist!

  Mary Alice Monroe

  Inspiration, People, Volunteer

  Source: www.maryannhenry.com

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• I'm usually a panster and throw ideas down on computer the second they hit my brain. I even had to get off the treadmill to write down my ideas. It's a great place to 'zone out' and think about my plots and characters.

  Franny Armstrong

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always a hard one for me. And I always had this spastic tendency to wrap up a story before I'd seen it the whole way through, a sort of writer's pre-ejaculatory tendency: "The End!"

  Cate Marvin

  Balls, Fiction, Stories

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.

  Edward Burns

  Balance, Trying, Dramatic

  "Edward Burns on His New Movie, 'The Fitzgerald Family Christmas'". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. December 7, 2012.

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• Most games follow a real railroad plot, no matter what you want, you're following their storyline to its unavoidable conclusion. I'd like to write a game where your character can follow any number of possible story arcs and sub-plots.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Real, Character, Writing

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• In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.

  Eli Roth

  Song, Musical, Doe

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

  Ayn Rand

  Three, Scene, Theme

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.348, Penguin

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

  Arthur Keith

  Discovery, World, Tales

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• After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles I'd read, I started relying on the expert advice of other mothers--especially those with sons a few years older than mine. This great body of knowledge is essentially an oral history, because anyone engaged in motherhood on a daily basis has no time to write an advice book about it.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Real, Book

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• America has entered a great struggle that tests our strength, and even more our resolve. Our nation is patient and steadfast. We continue to pursue the terrorists in cities and camps and caves across the earth. We are joined by a great coalition of nations to rid the world of terror. And we will not allow any terrorist or tyrant to threaten civilization with weapons of mass murder. Now and in the future, Americans will live as free people, not in fear, and never at the mercy of any foreign plot or power.

  George W. Bush

  War, Struggle, Civilization

  "Sept. 11 Marked as Day of Remembering". abcnews.go.com. September 11.

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• What a Devil is the Plot good for, but to bring in fine things?

  Theresa Villiers

  Devil, Fine Things, Fine

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• No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

  William Walton

  Bird, Honest, Lawyer

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• How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.

  Pope John Paul II

  Heart, Men, Productive Life

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• Everyone must hoe his plot daily.

  Vladimir Putin

  Hoe

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• Rashly,
  And praised be rashness for it--let us know,
  Our indiscretion sometime serves us well
  When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us
  There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
  Rough-hew them how we will

  William Shakespeare

  Shapes, Divinity, Ends

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10

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• Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Children, Order, Giving

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• We don't usually start out with a plot that we can pitch in two lines. We spend a year brainstorming and discussing ideas that are sometimes of a visual nature, sometimes just about characters and then we try to structure the story.

  Joachim Trier

  Nature, Character, Years

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• If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts.

  John Ashbery

  Numbers, Vitality, Needs

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• We also have to match the skills with the needs of the economy... I think we are losing the plot because we are continuing to produce the people that are not going to be the drivers of industrialisation. So that needs the discipline of both training institutions and policies that drive our people to industrialisation.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Thinking, Skills, Discipline

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• Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.

  Anne Enright

  Stories, Ears, Revelations

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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