"Essentially and most simply put, plot is what……" — Elizabeth George
"Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters."
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19 Quotes by Elizabeth George
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He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in…
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Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present…
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Of all my children, you were always the hardest on yourself. You were always looking for the right way to…
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She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had…
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I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.
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Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.
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I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
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I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by…
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It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
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Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of…
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Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at…
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The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things…
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The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my…
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The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
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Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our…
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Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or…
— Gerald Brenan
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Every action alters the soul of the doer.
— Oswald Spengler
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If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental…
— Unknown Author
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To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position…
— Joan Didion
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Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for…
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Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess…
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