Quotes about Plot

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

Good stories don't happen by accident, I learned. They are planned.

Suffering, as absurd as it seemed, pointed to a greater story in which, if one would only construe himself as a character within, he could find fulfillment in his tragic role, knowing the plot was heading toward redemption.

Before knowing what the hero wants, the audience has little interest in her fate.

How is it Shadows! that I knew ye not? How came ye muffled in so hush a mask? Was it a silent deep-disguised plot To steal away, and leave without a task My idle days? Ripe was the drowsy hour; The blissful cloud of summer-indolence Benumbed my eyes; my pulse grew less and less; Pain had no sting, and pleasure's wreath no flower: O why did ye not melt, and leave my sense Unhaunted quite of all but—nothingness?

Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind.

I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.

A director should concentrate on his storyline and his characters.

Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His Anointed...

The parts of fiction are the various steps that the author takes to develop his plot—the details of characterization and incident.

The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story or the dream.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.