Plot Quote by Jim Thompson Download Open image “There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.” — Jim Thompson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Plot Plot Things Seems Things Things are not what they seem Writing
There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting. — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it. — Nora Raleigh Baskin Copy Share Image
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it... — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen… — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
“It was like being asleep when you were awake and awake when you were asleep. I'd pinch myself, figuratively speaking - I had to… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“Yeah, Johnnie,’ I said, ‘it’s a screwed up, bitched up world, and I’m afraid it’s going to stay that way. And I’ll tell you… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“Flight is many things. Something clean and swift, like a bird skimming across the sky. Or something filthy and crawling; a series of crablike… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“Well. Well? What are you going to do? What are you going to say? What are you going to say when you’re drowning in… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“Strolling down a white-graveled walk to the cliff above the ocean, he let his eyes rove aimlessly over the expanse of sea and sand:… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang,… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“He picked her up and tossed her on the bed. They had a hell of a time. But afterward, after she had gone back… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“if I wasn't a decent woman I'd heist a leg and pee in your ear until it washed out that stinking pile of crap… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“Anyone who deprived her of something she wanted deserved what he got.” — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“He could be breaking apart inside and you'd never know it from the way he acted. He'd be just as pleasant and polite as… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Steve [King] has been incredibly supportive. He's also really good about getting back to me when I have questions about plot or characterization. — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix's role was going to be significant in the last one, when I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny bit… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character… — Ti West Copy Share Image
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
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