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

Communication Character Things Two

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

Eyes Place Way Action

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

Leave Always Things Like

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

Me People Mystery Years

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.

Time You People Face

Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.

H. P. Lovecraft

Change Design Never Story

It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.

H. P. Lovecraft

Story Always Last First

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

Follow Books Structure System

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

Winter Spring Plan Move

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.

Terry Pratchett

You Together Remember Lights

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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

You People Stupid Fight

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

Terry Pratchett

Character Voice Matter Stage

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 Complicated

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

Music Good People Feeling

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes Control Want Chapter

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

Chuck Palahniuk

Mother Son Caring Book

In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Wishes Important House Play

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 Book Meaning Person

It may be that by watching everywhere we go, by watching everything we do, by analyzing every word we say, by waiting and passing judgment over every association we make and every person we love, that we could uncover a terrorist plot, or we could discover more criminals. But is that the kind of society we want to live in?

Love Waiting Society Live

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

King Queen Grief Story

There are so many things we have not seen in 'Spider-Man' yet... I want to use bad guys never seen in movies. The first films were so traditional and so scrupulously followed the character's classic plot... So there's a lot of stuff left in stock. 'The Clone Saga,' for example.

Character Movies Bad Never

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

Good You Think Your

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

Good Hard Write Very

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.

Technology World Action New

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 Self Destination Purpose

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

Pictures Flaws Crime Difference

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