Plot Quotes - Page 28

• As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

  Barbara Cartland

  Space, Long, Arriving

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• J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit part. Up front, they said, 'You're very significant in the last one.' But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. Doesn't necessarily equal big part.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Mean, Roles, Lasts

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• As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.

  John O. Brennan

  Appreciation, Careers, Profound

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• [Ivy Wilkes] loves [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work, but is not satisfied by just looking at the paintings; she wants the painting to be her own. The plot grew naturally out of Ivy's personality (and flaws).

  Liza Campbell

  Ivy, Personality, Georgia O Keeffe

  Source: newwest.net

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• Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Watson love Mercy [Watson]. Eugenia hates Mercy. Baby likes Mercy. Mercy loves toast. And the plot, if you want to be so generous as to call it a plot, turns on those elements. love Mercy. Eugenia hates Mercy. Baby likes Mercy. Mercy loves toast. And the plot, if you want to be so generous as to call it a plot, turns on those elements.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Baby, Hate, Likes

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well when it was released on video, so we really didn't know what to do with the second plot.

  Jay Roach

  Austin, Video, Firsts

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Thinking, Snakes, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me within the constraints of storytelling. And I have narrowly defined storytelling.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Moving, Fiction, Stories

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• You go to the marketplace and there are seventeen consciousnesses moving in and out. Sometimes you want the same shirt that I want, and our thought bubbles collide a bit and that makes plot.

  George Saunders

  Moving, Want, Sometimes

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• The concept of writing a novel and not knowing where it's going - I don't know how to do that. Novels are plot- and character-driven, so if I don't know what becomes of people, how can I know where it should begin?

  John Irving

  Writing, Character, Knowing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A person without an Apple watch is perfectly content with his present watch but when he sees his friends buying the watch, he will hanker for an Apple watch. The endless cycle of wanting, getting, and wanting again is part of the plot of Capitalism. It is the way Capitalism creates jobs. The only antidote is Buddhism that holds that people might be happier by renouncing desire rather than by striving to satisfy desire. But then how can the economy create enough jobs in a Buddhist society of "less is more."

  Philip Kotler

  Buddhist, Jobs, Buddhism

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The idea of suggesting that Hannibal Lecter - in the book, he has a sixth finger and red eyes, and so there is a devilry in Thomas Harris' presentation - so it felt like it was completely honest and appropriate for the character. And we often talk in the writers' room, "Okay, there is the Hannibal as the devil explanation of that plot point, but we also need to ground that in a reality that is answerable to the physics of the storytelling."

  Bryan Fuller

  Book, Character, Eye

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution. The modern novels I read don't always deliver because I'm looking essentially for a story. As in Shakespeare, "The play's the thing." In particular I read detective stories for pacing, plot and suspense.

  Robert Cormier

  Modern Novel, Play, Giving

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look at them now, you see the development of character and the twists of plot; but essentially they told stories. My mother didn't go to the movies because of a religious promise she made early in her life, and I used to go to movies and come home and tell her the plots of those old Warner Brothers/James Cagney movies, the old romantic love stories. Through these movies that had real characters, I absorbed drama, sense of pacing, and plot.

  Robert Cormier

  Mother, Religious, Brother

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There is very little that is accidental in my work. I believe in serendipity for developments of plot, but the actual writing is arrived at by very hard work. The joy of writing doesn't mean that you don't get the backaches and headaches and the days when it's not coming.

  Robert Cormier

  Believe, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if I can get them and grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, you can do this, and if I see that fire in their eyes, that's when I think I know a writer.

  Colum McCann

  Writing, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my favorite plots.

  Anna Biller

  Husband, Monsters, My Favorite

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Innovation, Stories, Done

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• The Clinton machine is at the center of this power structure. We've seen this first hand in the WikiLeaks documents, in which Hillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors.

  Donald Trump

  Hands, Order, Secret

  Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations, www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.

  David Duchovny

  Actors, Way, Becoming

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, "Yeah, it's slow and has no plot."

  Jim Jarmusch

  Past, Kind, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hate the word juicy in describing anything: lips, plots, oranges. But especially novels. It feels - icky. Reminds me of saliva.

  Lauren Grodstein

  Hate, Orange, Juicy

  Source: www.salon.com

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• In other words, you've got a journey as the plot, but it has to be in a lively environment, being able to create the mood. If you read "Pickman's Model," in other words, they're winding their way through the Boston Streets and [H.P.] Lovecraft researched what was there.

  Paul Laffoley

  Journey, Boston, Able

  Interview With Robert Guffey, www.paranoiamagazine.com.

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• I find the best way to make things real is to just put two characters into a space and let them talk to each other in the way that they would talk to each other, and then see what they would say. I know it sounds weird, but that leads the plot and takes you in another direction.

  Steven Knight

  Real, Character, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• Steve [King] has been incredibly supportive. He's also really good about getting back to me when I have questions about plot or characterization.

  Robin Furth

  Kings, Supportive, Characterization

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

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