Quotes About Plot Structure

#1. The inclusion of females in stories is specifically discouraged. Women, when used in plot structure, should be secondary in importance .

Mike Madrid

#2. I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

Rachel Kushner

#3. When 'American Born Chinese' started getting a lot of attention, I freaked out a little bit because I realized that up until then I had just been doing comics by following my gut. I didn't really know much about plot structure or anything; I kind of just followed my gut.

Gene Luen Yang

#4. I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

Jeff VanderMeer

#5. I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Peter Greenaway

#6. I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character.

David Mitchell

#7. The challenge that I set for myself was to see whether or not plot and structure could coexist, and why it was that we had to always privilege one above the other.

Eleanor Catton

#8. Plot is the structure of revelation.

Walter Mosely

#9. We don't usually start out with a plot that we can pitch in two lines. We spend a year brainstorming and discussing ideas that are sometimes of a visual nature, sometimes just about characters and then we try to structure the story.

Joachim Trier

#10. 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

#11. I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.

John Hawkes

#12. 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

#13. Drop-dead freshly fucked gorgeous.

Tom Spanbauer

#14. when you gain an understanding of the structure that lies beneath stories. When you understand the bone structure of a plot skeleton, you'll know how to build a story.

Angela Elwell Hunt

#15. 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.

David Mamet

#16. Irrespective of the conflict with America it is a human duty to show sympathy with the American people, and be with them at these horrifying and awesome events which are bound to awaken human conscience.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#17. I've read and heard a lot of unbelievable stuff about those times when people lived in freedom
that is, in disorganized wildness.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#18. I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Barry Goldwater

#19. The Hand (Kara-Te) is the cutting edge of the Mind

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#20. Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.

Orlando Bloom

#21. Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

Madhur Bhandarkar

#22. Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

George Herbert

#23. Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

Nancy Kress