Subplots Quotes

• Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move forward all at once. Interruptions happen, change rushes in, we juggle three or ten balls at once. Readers don’t expect continuous narratives.

  Elizabeth Sims

  Moving, Writing, Plot

  "7 Ways to Add Great Subplots to Your Novel". www.writersdigest.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven
  by the characters' wants and desires.

  Robert Gregory Browne

  Character, Desire, Plot

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• In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Suspense Novels, Conflict, Suspense

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• 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

  Real, Plot, Ends

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• I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Jobs, Hero

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• People don't come to Marvel movies for personal life subplots, no.

  Anthony Mackie

  People, Personal Life

  "Anthony Mackie Talks Civil War and Learning He Was an Avenger When He Saw Age of Ultron". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 7, 2016.

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• Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and a small subplot that feeds in a twist or an unexpected piece of business that ads crunch and flavor to the story as a whole.

  Elizabeth Sims

  Writing, Twists, Plot

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• The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the title of the novel is the whole novel. The first line of the novel is the whole novel. The point of view is the whole novel. Every subplot is the whole novel. The verb tense is the whole novel.

  Mary Kay Zuravleff

  Writing, Dna, Views

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead character in the story, but like every man and woman on Earth, I am a suporting player in one of billions of subplots. You know what happens to supporting players. Too often they are killed off in chapter 3, or in chapter 10, or in chapter 35. A supporting player always has to be looking over his shoulder.

  Dean Koontz

  Character, Player, Men

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• I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.

  Nick Hornby

  Plot, Popcorn, Credit

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.34, Penguin

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• One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular economic and financial crisis in decades - possibly since the Great Depression - and the one group that spends most of its waking hours analyzing the economy basically missed it.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  Groups, Analyzing, Waking

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• The romance is the primary plot in a story that has two plots. The second plot is not a subplot, but one that is interwoven with the romance plot (if that makes sense.) A story needs compelling characters in a compelling plot.

  Madeline Hunter

  Character, Two, Romance

  Source: writerunboxed.com

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