老虎机稳赢方法

Plot Quotes

Quotes tagged as "plot" Showing 121-150 of 179
Mark Twain
“NOTICE

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”
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Jim Jarmusch
“I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films鈥攁lthough I think they do have plots鈥攂ut the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.”
Jim Jarmusch

J.C. Morrows
“What if Cinderella had been sent to kill the prince?" - Kayden”
J.C. Morrows, A Reluctant Assassin

Aristotle
“The tragic fear and pity may be aroused by the Spectacle; but they may also be aroused by the very structure and incidents of the play鈥攚hich is the better way and shows the better poet. The Plot in fact should be so framed that even without seeing the things take place, he who simply hears the account of them shall be filled with horror and pity at the incidents; which is just the effect that the mere recital of the story in Oedipus would have on one. To produce this same effect by means of the Spectacle is less artistic, and requires extraneous aid.”
Aristotle, The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

Aristotle
“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come second鈥攃ompare the parallel in painting, where the most beautiful colours laid on without order will not give one the same pleasure as a simple black-and-white sketch of a portrait.”
Aristotle, The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

Aristotle
“The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the story, as an imitation of action, must represent one action, a complete whole, with its several incidents so closely connected that the transposal or withdrawal of any one of them will disjoin and dislocate the whole. For that which makes no perceptible difference by its presence or absence is no real part of the whole.”
Aristotle, The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

Flannery O'Connor
“Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is presented in such a way that the reader has the sense that it is unfolding around him. This doesn't mean he has to identify himself with the character or feel compassion for the character or anything like that. It just means that fiction has to be largely presented rather than reported. Another way to say it is that though fiction is a narrative art, it relies heavily on the element of drama.”
Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Glen Duncan
“Don't bother looking for the meaning of it all. There isn't one.

Maybe not, but life compulsively dangled the possibility. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.”
Glen Duncan, Talulla Rising

“What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.”
Billy Marshall

Debasish Mridha
“A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.”
Debasish Mridha

Glenda Bailey-Mershon
“Not telling everything you know is not the same as telling a lie.”
Glenda Bailey-Mershon, Eve's Garden

Bailey Vincent
“Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.”
Bailey Vincent, The Details of How We Lived

Emilio Salgari
“Dopo vent'anni, Sandokan e Yanez finalmente sbarcavano sul loro isolotto che mai pi霉 avevano creduto di riconquistare.
- Grazie, fratellino mio, - disse la Tigre della Malesia al portoghese, mentre si avviavano su per l'alta rupe ed i loro equipaggi e le bande disarmavano la guarnigione. - Questa rivincita la devo tutta a te!
- Ba'! - rispose Yanez. - Cominciavo ad annoiarmi alla corte dell'Assam, quantunque adori la mia Surama. Ho preso tre mesi di vacanza e ti giuro che mi sono divertito.”
Emilio Salgari, La riconquista di Mompracem
tags: plot

J.C. Morrows
“Seriously man, what are you waiting for? Get in there - or I will." - Marek Montvene”
J.C. Morrows

Margaret Atwood
“Anyway, you don't know what's going to happen. I'm only just thickening the plot.

--I'd say it was pretty thick already.

Thick plots are my specialty. If you want a thinner kind, look elsewhere.”
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

Dean F. Wilson
“He had no big plan for this. He had not prepared for the day when he would be fighting his own work. He had not plotted against his own plots.”
Dean F. Wilson, Worldwaker

“We must carefully cultivate the voice that speaks to us because an internal voice is the ultimate narrator of our charming and delightful personal story or the documentarian of our tragic and disgraceful plotlines. Stories that we tell ourselves become our functional reality, which format structures the concourse of the nested emotional control panel that guides and girds us through the din of the present.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Amy King
“SPOILER ALERT: EVERYONE FALLS IN LOVE & DIES!”
Amy King, I Want to Make You Safe

Katsuhiro Otomo
“But...If that's true, then you're not...we thought you...Akira?”
Katsuhiro Otomo, Akira, Vol. 1
tags: plot

Wendy Lesser
“Part of the pleasure has to do with a sense of efficiency, of materials exactly allocated and completely used. Another part has to do with a sense of inevitability, the feeling that someone knew where we were headed all along, even if we and the characters did not.”
Wendy Lesser

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Aspirations forms the plot of success.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

“plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
Joe Poyer, The Chinese Agenda

“The biggest twist in fiction might be a story ending exactly how you thought it would.”
Kevin Focke

Angelica Hopes
“Cooking up ideas and crafting good plot into a unique, natural, stirring taste is like cooking patiently in a charcoal stove.”
Angelica Hopes

“A director's dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but clich茅's are pass茅e. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions.”
Anupama Chopra

“Storytelling began as a way for humans to relay information, from where to find food sources to the benefits of familial bonding, because fictional stories were the easiest way to memorize and communicate a complete set of information. We remember information best when it is delivered in the form of a plot, which is called 'semantic memory.' Stories still serve a definitive purpose and the stronger the purpose, the clearer the story.

Fire Up Your Writing Brain”
susan reynolds

“I鈥檓 a little bit of a plot junkie. I like stakes in my books. Sometimes storytelling gets a bit of a bad rap. 鈥淧lot鈥檚 easy鈥 or 鈥渢here鈥檚 a higher art we are all aspiring to.鈥 Yes, first and foremost we are all aspiring to that art but I also think it has to have a certain propulsiveness, a certain thing that鈥檚 keeping me turning the pages. No matter how great the voice is you will have problems in the plot that will enable somebody to put it down. There are too many things competing for everyone鈥檚 attention to allow anyone to put that book down. I don鈥檛 want the reviewer to put it down because they鈥檝e got 50 galleys stacked up. I don鈥檛 want the reader to put it down.”
Lee Boudroux

J. Neven-Pugh
“Some days I feel more like a scribe than a creator. I will have the major points fleshed out, but there is always a turn or two that I didn't see coming, or which came earlier than I expected it to, or not at all...”
J. Neven-Pugh