'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.
I always begin with a source of inspiration that comes from nature. The story comes from my research, volunteering, and meeting the people involved in that story world. I am an intuitive writer and an image, sound, experience can all inspire a scene or a plot twist!
It's like low-budget filmmaking - a focus on dialogue and relationships over plot. Quirky. Improv.
God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.
Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.
What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.
I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.
I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don't remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me.
I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again. . . it's funner that way.
Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.
I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.
The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It's much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more - I want to say 'sophisticated. '
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
I always feel funny when I don't reveal things, especially to you [the press], who have supported us so much and are really the big reason we're here. But, we hold back information about the plot because we want to reward the fans for sticking with us, and that's so much fun. That's the funnest part of it.
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage?. . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong.
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.
Your life will have chapters, complete with crazy characters, villains and a plot you can't even imagine as you sit here today. It's a lot like a Scooby Doo episode.
You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.