#plot

And he rose, brontosaurus-like, to his place among the treetops. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#jeffrey-eugenides #madeleine-hanna #marriage-plot #marriage

J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized and uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. ↗

— Ansen Dibell

#character-building #fiction-writing #lord-of-the-rings #motivation #plot

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda. ↗

— Abdallah II

#american #certain #country #envelope #our

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#famous #going #how #i #never

I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research. ↗

— David Baldacci

#both #challenges #characters #drawn #hard

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#almost #automatically #because #characters #come

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#every #everything #gesture #given #i

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

— W. H. Auden

#feeling #good #opera #people #plot

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen. ↗

— Mike Judge

#conflict #happen #order #plot #something

Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize. ↗

— John Stuart Blackie

#keeping #labour #plot #power #prize