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“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”

Life Inspirational Giving Persons Book Bigs Literature Individual Novel Our Lives Individuality Meaning Of Life Plot Cosmic Meaning Life What Is The Meaning Of Life

Author:Anais Nin

“If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.”

Ifs Wells Book Sometimes Character Reality Lasts Fiction Wind Pages Caught Plot Swept Away

Author:Jodi Picoult

“You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Writing Happens Would Be Running Fighting Hurt Team Stupid Jokes Betrayal Relief Tragic Plot Frightened Weaponry

Author:Terry Pratchett

“You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.”

Light Together Remember Holes Plot Drs Flashing Lights

Author:Terry Pratchett

“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.”

People Made Character Stories Listening Mythology Greek Plot Greek Mythology Nothing New Reimagining

Author:Jeremy Renner

“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.”

Should Ends Character Principles Middle Taught Should Have Pity Plot Catharsis Beginning Middle And End

Author:Anne Rice

“I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.”

Lucky Devil Plot Devices

Author:Charles Francis Richter

“You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.”

Knows Way Play Stories Incredibles Instance Plot Recognizing Twists Diaries Motorcycle Bikers Plot Twists

Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.”

Writing Decided Plot Outlines Outlining

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.”

Wells Art Character Film Fall Effort Entertainment Reputation Visuals Plot Phenomenon Consolation Modernism Visual Art

Author:Will Self

“Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.”

Writing Art Character Stories Creative Pieces Paper Plot Blank Creative Art

Author:William Shatner

“A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.”

Inspirational Writing Mean Stories Life Is Inspiring Surprise Delight Plot Life Is Full Of Surprises

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“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.”

Looks Guy Involved Exercise Legs Ridiculous Plot Pilates Stirrups

Author:John Stamos

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

Plot Cliche Generic

Author:Ben Stiller

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

Thinking Mind Has Beens Reason Shows Modern Television Plot Television Shows Intricate

Author:Alex Tabarrok

“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.”

Way Paid Reputation Plot Camps Demise

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“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.”

Character Passion Half Situation Comedy Tragedy Operations Plot Imitation

Author:Horace Walpole

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

Important Differences Down And Sat Theme Plot Lenses

Author:Len Wein

“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.”

Knows Want Writing Today Audience Heard Jokes Tough Surprise Plot Sophisticated

Author:Betty White

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

Stories Bigs Scene Elements Rhythm Plot Commercialism

Author:Zhang Yimou

“I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it.”

Want Stuff Loses Rooms Audience Too Much Cutting Example Scene Scary Plot Spoof

Author:David Zucker

“I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there are a lot of things that happen as a result of sin.”

Men World Believe Happens Evil I Believe Sin Results Plot Evil Man Sinful World

Author:Anne Graham Lotz

“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”

Knows Men Doe Universe Hope Given Can Do Education Ignorance Suicide Conviction Wide Envy Every Man Plot Portions Imitation Toil Self Reliance Reliance Corn Kernel

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your brash and insolent beauty, your heavy comedic face and knowledge of sweet delights, but from a distance I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.”

Heart Whole Wanted Faces Left Known Break Sweet Distance Misery Delight Heavy Plot Heart Break Comedic Insolent Brash

Author:Maya Angelou

“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”

Life Whole Bigs Film Life Is Purpose Fantasy Minutes Inspire Ten Meaning Of Life Plot Working It Clue Discworld Big Picture Small Gods Good Omens

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after ingesting more than one chapter. Has been known to cause blindness, seizures and a terminal loathing of literature. Should only be taken under the supervision of a highly trained English teacher. Preferably one who grades on the curve.”

“Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.”

Thinking Moments Style Actresses Plot Devices Hopeless Blair Hopeless Romantic Hepburn Audrey Old Movie

Book:Gossip Girl: #1: A Novel by Cecily von Ziegesar

Source: Gossip Girl: #1: A Novel by Cecily von Ziegesar

“I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).”

Knows Plot Dames Christie

Author:Connie Willis

“'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.”

Firsts Children Turns Suspense Plot Harry Potter Potters

Author:Berkeley Breathed

“You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.”

Ifs Heart Character Stories Seems Courses Hours Forget Century Caught Details Following Chairs Plot Slips Caught Up Costumes Forget Everything Heart Beating

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”

Life Inspirational Funny Figures Casts Brilliant Plot Superb

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“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.”

Values Careers Profound Appreciation Terrorist Former Plot Save A Life

Author:John O. Brennan

“To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise a shape, a plan. There is dignity in this. Your whole life is a plot, a scheme, a diagram. It is a failed scheme but that's not the point. To plot is to affirm life, to seek shape and control. Even after death, most particularly after death, the search continues. Burial rites are an attempt to complete the scheme, in ritual. Picture a state funeral, Jack. It is all precision, detail, order, design. The nation holds its breath. - (WN 292)”

World Trying States Whole Life Is Order Nations Plans Design Shapes Dignity Breaths Chaos Details Whole Life Plot Ritual Funeral Schemes After Death Precision Rite Burial Diagrams

Author:Don DeLillo

“Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan's writing, the way he develops and expresses ideas and character. Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are explored and personalities and relationships are unfolded.”

Ifs Way Writing Doe Said Ideas Character Stories Together Missing Personality Plot Compelling Framework Get Together

Author:Warren Ellis

“A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.”

Writing Novel Details Instance Collections Plot Unseen Luminous Unsaid Summary

Book:The art of subtext: beyond plot

Source: The art of subtext: beyond plot

“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”

World Humans Truth Political Virtue Honesty This World Perfection Sake Seeds Plot Principal Truth Love

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)

“The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a meaning separate from the rest-for example, the meeting of two people, which will become decisive for both-must bear in mind that each of the two brings with himself a texture of events, environments, other people, and that from the meeting, in turn, other stories will be derived which will break off from their common story.”

People Mind Humans Two Stories Form Turns Individual Common Race Break Environment Pieces Events Example Bears Constant Meetings Human Race Plot Texture One Piece Break Off

Author:Italo Calvino

“Character is plot, plot is character.”

Writing Character Plot

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your money for nothing. But what do you think? I woke up this morning with a beautiful new plot in my head, and I've been going about all day planning my characters, just as happy as I could be. No one can ever accuse me of being a pessimist! If I had a husband and twelve children swallowed by an earthquake one day, I'd bob up smilingly the next morning and commence to look for another set. ~Jershua Abbott”

Source: Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated

“So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.”

Said Fun Known One Thing Favors Hardest Just One Plot Connoisseur One Thing After Another

Book:Good Bones and Simple Murders

Source: Good Bones and Simple Murders

“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE”

Persons Order Moral Shots Chiefs Narrative Motive Plot Attempting Huckleberry Ordnance

Author:Mark Twain

“I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.”

Lost Scripts Credit Plot Exit Popcorn Soundtracks Intermission Subplots

Book:High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can't be far off.”

Thinking Knows Book Ends Character Left Bits Pages Mess Fifty Plot

Book:MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR

Source: MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR

“The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!”

Source: The Basic Political Writings (Second Edition)

“For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. To work her, plow her under, rain down a dreadful poison upon her. Miraculously, it causes these girls to grow. They elongate on the pale slender stalks of their longing, like sunflowers with heavy heads. You can shield them with your body and soul, trying to absorb that awful rain, but they'll still move toward him. Without cease they'll bend to his light.”

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.”

Should War Evil Nations Secret Known Enemy Citizens Authority Treats Affair Plot Tyrants Concealed

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds”

Want Mind Doe Play Truth Animal Becoming Losing Garden Cruelty Plot Weed Falsehood Reserves Sensitivity Tidy

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no 'meaning' beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience.”

Knows Rooms Saws Cutting Scripts Plot Temporary Flash Arrangements Sequence Variables

Book:The White Album

Source: The White Album

“(text message) CMDR ROOT. TRBLE BELOW. HAVN OVRRN BY GOBLINS. PLCE PLAZA SRROUNDED. CUDGEON + OPL KBOI BHND PLOT. NO WPONS OR CMMUNICATIONS. DNA CNONS CNTRLLED BY KBOI. I M TRPPED IN OP BTH. CNCL THNKS IM 2 BLM. IF ALIVE PLSE HLP. IF NOT, WRNG NMBR.”

Ifs Alive Messages Roots Plot Dna Goblin Text Message

Author:Eoin Colfer

“So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms, missing incidents as if locusts had consumed a section of tapestry, as if plaster loosened by the bombing had fallen away from a mural at night.”

Ifs Book Night Missing Storm Fallen Plot Gaps Sections Consumed Incidents Englishmen Bombing Tapestry Plasters Mural

Book:The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

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