#plot

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

The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard, very cynical. I could never have pulled it off. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#carrie #could #cynical #hard #i

No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place. ↗

— Cofer Black

#degrade #destroy #disrupt #group #how

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#hard #human #i #neglecting #plot