Plotline Quotes

#1. I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.

Joan D. Vinge

#2. For the writer, the risks are quite palpable and enduring. With each new character, each new setting, and each new plotline, something dark from deep inside the recesses of our minds makes its way to the surface where it will take hold and remain. I wouldn't have it any other way.

J.F. Juzwik

#3. The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women' plotline.

Geraldine Brooks

#4. there may indeed be a place for using characters as examples to follow or avoid - remember, the biblical writers do it too - so long as it is practiced with an awareness of the Christcentered plotline of the Bible.

Michael R. Emlet

#5. On THE AMBER SPYGLASS:
If this plotline was a motorist, it would have been arrested for driving while intoxicated, if it had not perished in the horrible drunk accident where it went headlong over the cliff of the author's preachy message, tumbled down the rocky hillside, crashed, and burned.

John C. Wright

#6. Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.

Deborah Harkness

#7. The central plotline of the story of Scripture was set in motion: a holy God making a way to dwell in the midst of an unholy people.

Kevin DeYoung

#8. Eventually, while researching, you'll learn something you didn't want to know. Some fact that ruins a plotline you had in mind. The good news is that sometimes, learning all the facts can make for a much more interesting story than you originally had in mind.

Andy Weir

#9. We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.

Christopher Bollen

#10. Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.

Karen Joy Fowler

#11. For a song cycle to work, you have to feel these things when you hear them and you either have an emotional reaction to it or you don't. The plotline is something that gets woven together in the back-story.

Tori Amos

#12. Never underestimate the power of one well-timed compliment. It has the power to change a person's entire perspective on life. It has the potential to change a person's plotline for eternity. The right word at the right time can be the catalyst for someone else's miracle.

Mark Batterson

#13. Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.

Brian D. McLaren

#14. Close your eyes and relax. One kiss. I don't bite." His hand brushed her cheek. "At least not hard."
"That's a joke, right? Because I have proof you do bite hard.

Laurann Dohner

#15. Sometimes you have to win ugly.

Vinny Testaverde

#16. I understand the bad rap that 3-D is getting because the conversions are crappy and because the films aren't designed for 3-D. It's a completely different medium.

Alfonso Cuaron

#17. Everyone in Senate is a hurdle, but everyone in there has children. Everyone in there has grandchildren. No one wants to see our kids continue to gain weight, have high blood pressure high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression.

Richard Simmons

#18. We lose keys and we find keys and we get new keys. We just have to find the ones that unlock the right doors. Sometimes, we have keys, but we don't know what door they fit. That can be the hardest part, putting the right key in the right door.

Dan Groat

#19. For a person who strives for excellence, one's own satisfaction is often more valuable than others' appreciation.

Amey Hegde

#20. If you wish to change the world just be kind to your neighbors.

Debasish Mridha

#21. I've got a lot to prove to a lot of people, including myself.

Landon Donovan

#22. The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.

Sylvia Plath

#23. As with real estate, what matters with bullet holes is location, location, location.

Nelson DeMille

#24. Is the Pope Catholic. No I'm serious. I really need to know.

David Beckham

#25. You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.

Gautama Buddha

#26. I did so many bad things to your god; if he or she exists; would have been pregnant now.

M.F. Moonzajer

#27. I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.

T Bone Burnett

#28. This state of independence shall be!

Jon Anderson