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In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. - Henry Rollins

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. Henry Rollins

Winter, Spring, Plan, Move

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, Inevitable

The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story. Rory MacLean

Knowledge, Experience, Memory, Story

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

Grief, Beginning, End, Smooth, Middle

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, Short, Think

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, Destination, Purpose, Self, Sense

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, Fog, Story, Life Is A, You

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

Communication, Character, Storytelling

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, You, Play, Know, Way

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. W. H. Auden

Good, Music, People, Feeling, Opera

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

Me, Thought, Down, Important, Never

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

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest. Kurt Vonnegut

Follow, Structure, Books, Quest, System

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, New, Want

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. Phaedrus

Others, Destruction, Who, Attempt, Those

The NSA is not listening to anyone's phone calls. They're not reading any Americans' e-mails. They're collecting simply the data that your phone company already has, and which you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, so they can search that data quickly in the event of a terrorist plot. Tom Cotton

Listening, Search, Reading, You, Data

I always write on unlined typing paper and write the first draft in longhand, using cheap Bic pens. I try to write about four pages a day, which usually yields a first draft in six months. I don't plot ahead of time, so I'm flying by the seat of my pants for the first draft. Tess Gerritsen

Time, Day, Flying, Try, Ahead, First

I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the jokes and then try to form them into a plot. If I get a good theme going, I feel lucky. Jeff Kinney

Good, Best, Quality, College, World, Try

All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that's what we call 'the plot'. Margaret Atwood

Time, People, Moving, Action, Place

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 don't want to be Batman. Let Val Kilmer do it. I just want to be Uncle Batman. I have this whole 'warm relationship' plot in my mind. In the final scenes, the new Batmobile breaks down, the new Batman's stranded on the side of the road. We grab our old Batmobile, pick him up and drive away. Adam West

Relationship, Mind, Drive, Warm, Road

I've always figured the only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer and longer until something happens - you know, until it finds its own plot - because you can't outline and then fit the thing into it. I suppose it's a slow way of working. Nelson Algren

Slow, Book, You, Know, Way, Finish

My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great fit for a book where you control what happens - a book as game - because the plot of 'Hamlet' is very game-like: get a mission from a ghost to kill the final boss, kill the final boss, and game over. You win. Ryan North

Great, Boss, Game, Win, Control, Book

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau. Jeff Beck

Success, Failure, You, High, Were, Very

The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes. Peter Baynham

Story, Redemption, Shapes, Oldest

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved. Thorne Smith

Moral, Wander, Leaving, Off, Quite, Then

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