Synopsis Quotes

• Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Ideas, Plot

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• I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Email, Three, Pages

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you're going all out.

  J. B. Priestley

  Magic, Mind, Cold

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• I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

  Tanith Lee

  Chains

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• A synopsis of every story we do: someone gets over their own stupid ass.

  Kieron Gillen

  Stupid, Stories, Ass

  "The Return of the Ultimate Music-Obsessive Comic, Phonogram". Interview with Tom Ewing, pitchfork.com. August 12, 2015.

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• I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are deeply layered, you're obligated to not say things out loud.

  Shane Carruth

  Hate, Ideas, Stories

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• I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Writing, Finals

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• I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater. He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially - shortest synopsis ever, like I'm the Cablevision guide button - it's the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven. It's by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.

  Adam Richman

  New York, Men, Awards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.

  Clive Cussler

  Block, Moving, Book

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• I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.

  Anthony Burgess

  Writing, Names, Firsts

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.51, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I am asked to submit a 2-3 page synopsis to my publisher ahead of time, so by the time I begin writing, I have a fair idea of where the story will begin, the main conflicts, and the basic ending point. But that still leaves plenty of room for changes and discovery along the way.

  Julie Klassen

  Writing, Discovery, Ideas

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• In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just R-rated in France. But when you meet French producers with a script like mine, they behave like the most fragile chickens in the world. They just tell you "Oh, no. You should cut this. You should cut that." And at the end you have been totally censored on the synopsis, and then on the script.

  Gaspar Noe

  Cutting, World, Scripts

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• ... And we talk it out. Lately, I've had Roy Thomas come in, and he sits and makes notes while we discuss it. Then he types them up, which gives us a written synopsis. Originally - I have a little tape recorder - I had tried taping it, but then I found no one on staff has time to listen to the tape again later. But this way he makes notes, types it quickly, I get a carbon, the artist gets a carbon ... so we don't have to worry that we'll forget what we've said.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Artist, Giving

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