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• Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Ideas, Stories, Next

  Twitter post from Jan 03, 2013

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• Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.

  Anne Lamott

  Character, Worry, Asking

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.54, Anchor

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• Alafair Burke's first standalone is a must read! You'll lose yourself in this riveting story of Alice Humphrey, a woman whose nightmare begins when she goes to work at her new gallery job, only to find everything gone—and a murdered man on the floor. You can't guess the plot twists that follow, as Alice's whole word turns upside down and she has to question everyone and everything she thought was real. And the ending is a shocker you'll never see coming.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Jobs, Real, Men

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• Ultimately every trick succeeds or fails with an audience because of its plot.

  Jim Steinmeyer

  Succeed, Failing, Tricks

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• When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Perfect, Looks, Surprise

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• Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

  Jim Jarmusch

  Fiction, Film

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• Friends now fast sworn,
  Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart,
  Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise
  Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love,
  Unseparable, shall within this hour,
  On a dissension of a doit, break out
  To bitterest enmity; so fellest foes,
  Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep
  To take the one the other, by some chance,
  Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends
  And interjoin their issues.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Heart, Sleep

  William Shakespeare, Lee Bliss (2000). “Coriolanus”, p.221, Cambridge University Press

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• With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga. . . . On the other side of the Ganga a big plot of land will be acquired, where unmarried girls or Brahmacharini widows will live; devout married women will also be allowed to stay now and then. Men will have no concern with this Math.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Girl, Mother, Inspiration

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda". Book by Swami Vivekananda, Volume 7, Conversations And Dialogues,

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• When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sex, Book, Character

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• He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Stars, Pain

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.175

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• I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.

  Stan Dale

  Opposites, Optimism, Paranoid

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• The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

  Ali Khamenei

  Political, Disability, Winner

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• We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Two, Three, World

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• J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the hobbits in an inn, and Tolkien was in despair. He didn't know who Strider was, where the book was going, or what to write next. Strider turns out to be no lesser person than Aragorn, the unrecognized and uncrowned king of all the forces of good, whose restoration to rule is, along with the destruction of the evil ring, the engine that moves the plot of the whole massive trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.

  Ansen Dibell

  Kings, Moving, Book

  Ansen Dibell (1988). “Plot”, Writers Digest Books

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• The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

  Billy Wilder

  Hiding, Subtle, Elegant

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• Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

  Connie Willis

  Thinking, Elements, Literature

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• Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Rivers, Law, Guy

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• If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

  Chaim Potok

  Writing, Discovery, Agony

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• The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Character, Labels

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• As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. That’s all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  Writing, Unique, Thinking

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• Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Wish, Problem

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• In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

  Henry Rollins

  Spring, Moving, Winter

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• The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Play, World, Seeing

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby Essays: Tailor blood and other notes and comments”

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• Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pages, Woods, Steps

  "Ten rules for writing fiction". www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

  E. M. Forster

  Elements, Detectives, Mystery

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.132, RosettaBooks

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