Human consciousness Quote by Don DeLillo

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

— Don DeLillo

“Might it also be that creating narratives around murder allows a measure of comfort? Murder in the abstract is terrifying; in the details, you…

— Emily Maguire

“You can’t plot murder like a novel. There are always loose ends in real life.”

— Robert Galbraith

To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to…

— Don DeLillo

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long…

— Donna Tartt

One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly…

— Mary MacLane

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.

— Jodi Picoult

[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“An idea doesn’t have to be a plot notion, just a place to begin creating. Plots often generate themselves when one begins to ask…

— Neil Gaiman

They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.

— Ani DiFranco

I detest the word plot. I never, never think of plot. I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters; I'll tell…

— Stirling Silliphant