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Tag Name "Plot" (545)

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Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
Henry Miller
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Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really great struggle, the epic struggle of creation, is the inner fight of the individual whereby the soul builds up character.
William Wallace Cook
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Plots are for dead people.
Lorrie Moore
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Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.
Ray Bradbury
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Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.
John Irving
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PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.
Aristotle
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Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.
Dan Chaon
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Plot and character are virtually the same thing.
Daniel Keys Moran
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Plot is the knowing of destination.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.
Don DeLillo
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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
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
Erica Jong
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Plot is unimportant. Family is everything, and 'Furious 7' is a blast.
Drew McWeeny
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Plot and melodrama were in every life in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.
Gertrude Atherton
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Plots are ... what the writer sees with.
Eudora Welty
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Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.
Agatha Christie
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Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don't type.
Anne Lamott
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
John Dryden
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plot is character in action.
Maren Elwood
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Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.
Margaret Bechard
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Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.
Scott Westerfeld
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Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there's an explosion-that's Plot.
Leigh Brackett
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Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.
Ned Beauman
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Plot was always secondary in my mind.
Dan Chaon
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