Plot Quotes - Page 26

• I know from experience that I make the best decisions when I'm into the story and inspired by the story, not when I'm sitting there trying to plot.

  Pamela Clare

  Decision, Trying, Sitting

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline the gist of the story.But I never get much beyond that. I get too impatient to write.

  Pamela Clare

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.

  Anne Tyler

  Views, Stories, Come Up

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art context and I started to do installations, that was when writing of mine almost returned to fiction. Earlier I felt like I didn't have anything to write about, I could only concentrate on the page, I could only concentrate on words.

  Vito Acconci

  Art, Writing, Fiction

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 2007.

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• My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town.

  George Burns

  Play, Ideas, Able

  George Burns (1988). “Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Reality, Creating, Views

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.82, Bantam

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• I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.

  John Stamos

  Exercise, Guy, Looks

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• The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It's much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more - I want to say sophisticated.

  Betty White

  Writing, Want, Today

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

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• The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she is very clumsy and her plots are rubbish. But we don't read her for that. There are pages and pages of dialogue. What it requires is real effort and attention.

  Hilary Mantel

  Real, Ivy, Effort

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

  Zhang Yimou

  Stories, Elements, Scene

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• When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.

  Frank Herbert

  Book, Writing, Years

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.8, Penguin

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• The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

  Anne Rice

  Character, Should Have, Principles

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• This is all thousands of years old. It's the same the world over. Anyone who has ever walked upright has loved beer, celebrated over it, told talks over it, hatched plots over it, courted over it. It's what we do as a species. It's what makes us human. We brew.

  Alan D. Eames

  Beer, Years, World

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• You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Thinking, Peers, Firsts

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• There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again - so what makes people keep watching and listening? It's all about the character.

  Jeremy Renner

  Character, People, Greek

  "The Bourne Legacy's Jeremy Renner, action hero at last". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

  Len Wein

  Differences, Important, Lenses

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• Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

  David Shields

  Narrative, Resolution, Driven

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger: A Manifesto”, p.128, Penguin UK

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• The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

  David Shields

  Thinking, Rooms, Absence

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.114, Vintage

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• With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

  David Shields

  Sacrifice, Too Much, Novel

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.114, Vintage

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• The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

  Ben Stiller

  Cliche, Generic

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• I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Thinking, Mind, Television

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• Plots are for dead people.

  Lorrie Moore

  People, Dead People

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• I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Demise, Way, Reputation

  "Rufus and Martha Wainwright on Family Memories, Jealousy, and Fame". Interview with Miranda Siegel, www.vulture.com. February 19, 2013.

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• Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

  Horace Walpole

  Passion, Character, Tragedy

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• Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths, they conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot. So lawyers are all unscrupulous and doctors are all uncaring. Psychiatrists are all crazy, and politicians are all corrupt. All cops are psychopaths, and all businessmen are crooks. Even moviemakers come off badly: directors are megalomaniacs, actors are spoiled brats. Since all occupations are portrayed negatively, why expect scientists to be treated differently?

  Michael Crichton

  Crazy, Careers, Doctors

  Michael Crichton's Speech at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Anaheim, California, www.abc.net.au. January 25, 1999.

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