Subplots Quotes

#1. YA heroines can have romances that are subplots: can have goals other than getting/keeping a man: can put their lovers second. JUST LIKE YAheroes DO!

Celine Kiernan

#2. At three and four and five, children may not be able to follow complicated plots and subplots. But the narrative form, psychologists now believe, is absolutely central to them.

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.

Jennifer Egan

#4. John (Grisham) was really helpful keeping me on track, not wandering off into subplots, making sure I didn't spill the beans too early, all kinds of nitty-gritty things that you've gotta have under control if you're going to write a good thriller.

Tony Vanderwarker

#5. I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

Donald Miller

#6. Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

Grant Morrison

#7. All well and good, but for our purposes these otherwise-valuable insights are mere subplots almost designed to carry us down side trails while blithely humming a tune about the rough equivalence of forests and trees.

Joseph J. Ellis

#8. In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

Jeffery Deaver

#9. People don't come to Marvel movies for personal life subplots, no.

Anthony Mackie

#10. Although 'L.A. Confidential' is a long movie, there's never a moment when you think, 'I'm loving this ... but when's dinner?' Each time I see it, I discover something I hadn't noticed before. It has a tremendous skill in developing all the subplots.

Julian Fellowes

#11. A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots.

Darin Strauss

#12. My friend Isabel says, When you're writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only knows how many characters, your brain holds the volume of it beyond the ability of your consciousness.
Of course.

Sarah Manguso

#13. After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.

Richard Flanagan

#14. You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.

Walter Kirn

#15. You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself
theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.

Ellen Page

#16. I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

Barbara Kruger

#17. Once I leave the studio I'm ready to do the next thing. There are records I made that I haven't heard.

Paul Smoker

#18. It was like he'd just discovered fire, and she was the main ingredient.

Debra Anastasia

#19. To receive all of the promised blessings, we must accept the gospel in faith and in full. However, this certain faith does not usually come all at once. We learn spiritually line upon line and precept upon precept.

James E. Faust

#20. The enchanted world arising out of the dim mists of the past, into which he just stepped, quivered-and disappeared.

Ivan Turgenev

#21. We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.

Francis Parkman

#22. You liked watching Lucrezia and her consort," Roark observed, ignoring his comment and switching the subject, taking Nix's earlobe between his white teeth and nipping it, hard. He licked at the blood. "The cruel face of their love. It turned you on. Hard.

Jae T. Jaggart

#23. Muhammad may have been, there is one detail that should not be lost in the tumult and confusion

Reza Aslan

#24. You can tell that hold is effective because his face is red and the rest of his body is the color of a bottle of 2% milk.

CM Punk

#25. Our stability is but balance, and conduct lies In masterful administration of the unforseen.

Robert Bridges