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When you reach the editing stage, it is often the case that you can get too involved with the story to detect errors. You can see words in your head that aren't actually there on the page, sentences blur together and errors escape you, and you follow plot threads and see only the images in your skull. Neal Asher

Together, Words, Story, You, Reach, Blur

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end. Ann Hood

Grief, Beginning, End, Middle, Smooth

Finishing something is the hardest part. You know it's not as good as you hoped. You know there are plot problems. You know that by finishing it, you're saying - even if only to yourself - 'This is the best I can do.' And because it's not perfect, that's really hard. Antony Johnston

Best, Good, Yourself, Not Perfect, Know

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot. George Lucas

Communication, Character, Storytelling

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot. E. M. Forster

Grief, Queen, King, Story, Then, Died

The 9/11 attack itself played out around the world, with planning meetings in Malaysia, operatives taking flight lessons in the United States, coordination by plot leaders based in Hamburg, and money transfers from Dubai - activities overseen by al-Qaeda's senior command from secure bases in Afghanistan. Peter Bergen

Money, Planning, World, Meetings, Flight

This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.' Paramahansa Yogananda

Life, Man, Suffering, Drama, Complicated

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. Terry Pratchett

Stupid, Fight, People, Writing, Hurt

Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something important seems to be going on. But we can't figure out the story. We don't know what part we're supposed to play or what the plot is. John Eldredge

Life, Live, Story, Fog, Life Is A, Know

Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique. Caroline Lawrence

Story, Skeleton, Unique, Body, You, Just

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. Gael Garcia Bernal

Change, Motorcycle, Play, Know, You, Way

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. John Grisham

Death, Good, Story, Insurance, Goal, Try

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. Bryant H. McGill

Hope, Purpose, Destination, Self, Sense

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. Ernest Gaines

Story, Believe, I Believe, Creating

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect. Douglas Coupland

Creative, Recognition, Storytelling

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem. Jane Campion

Freedom, Responsibility, Think, Short

There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that's not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn't move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial paradigm. Jesse Williams

Character, Time, Story, Forward, Kind

I think I can speak with a degree of authority... today, the biggest driving force of movies is pace; God help you if you try to put in a scene that is about character and not plot. Terry Hayes

Character, Today, God, Think, Help, You

I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline. Maria Semple

Freedom, Story, Me, Knowing, Calendar

The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with. John Updike

Time, Live, People, Face, You, Fact

The plot of my 'Phantom' is pretty much mine. It's based on the Gaston Leroux book - I've taken a lot of liberties with it. Andrew Lloyd Webber

Book, Pretty, Mine, Much, Taken, Lot

We began to do little things, have little scenes where we just talked about things that had nothing to do with the plot. In fact, in the beginning, they didn't want us to do that. But as time went on, you see that in so many shows. I think we were the first to do that. Don Knotts

Time, Little Things, Think, Beginning

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist. John Banville

Love, Business, Book, Writing, Run, Wish

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride. Mark Haddon

Good, Ride, People, Better, Page, Like

My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. John Irving

Animal, Writing, Me, Long, Ancestors

Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. 'Hell or High Water''s a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank. Taylor Sheridan

Simple, Good, Gift, You, Hell, Feel

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