Inciting Incident Quotes

#1. Infatuation is the inciting incident. Maybe it goes somewhere, maybe it doesn't, but you can't have a story without it. Love is the story itself, the thing we carry with us after the mountains are gone.

A. Manette Ansay

#2. The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

Donald Miller

#3. I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.

Denise Mina

#4. There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.

Thomas Brooks

#5. There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force.

Bulent Ecevit

#6. Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

Star Jones

#7. Aashif stares at him through a hood of black cloth that reveals only a pair of brown, malevolent eyes and a mouthful of smiling teeth too white and perfect to be a product of any fourth-world, Middle-Eastern shithole.

Blake Crouch

#8. The greatest evidence of authentic good will is the way we treat people with whom we passionately disagree.

Jonathan Morris

#9. I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.

Malala Yousafzai

#10. We were all created equally unique.

Ben Tolosa

#11. To overcome your fear of death, you have to move from 'the world ends with me' to 'the world goes on without me'. It is a great leap, the biggest step a human can take.

Shashi Deshpande

#12. I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.

Chuck Pagano

#13. bucket on the deck behind him, bait sloshing. He

Heather Burch

#14. Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.

Jacqueline Woodson