#plots

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

#plots #writing #writing-life #life

I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#depends #describe #dig #digging #down

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#i #i love #kids #know #love

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots. ↗

— Scott Turow

#being #books #could #credit #had

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots. ↗

— Billy West

#being #beyond #character-driven #comes #cool

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before. ↗

— Terri Windling

#adage #before #done #how #old

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

— Zhang Yimou

#commercialism #elements #includes #large #like

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing. ↗

— William Gurnall

#drawing #earth #god #hand #hell

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#asleep #books #cartoons #comic #comic books

As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#go #i #keep #long #outer