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Screenwriting, as a whole, tends to be more objective. In a novel, you can have chapters of stream-of-consciousness writing that add depth to the plot and characters. Film doesn't allow for that by its nature, at least in the long form.

Stephen McFeely

Nature Writing Long You More Plot

If your characters are two-dimensional and your plot uncompelling, it won't matter how incredibly detailed and believable your fantasy world might be.

World Fantasy Matter Your Plot How

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

Conflict You Bad Happen Order Plot

Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

Same Fairy Plot Treatment Tales

When Melissa McCarthy came out with 'Bridesmaids,' all of a sudden you saw a plus-sized woman who had three dimensions, was not an appendage, was pivotal to the plot.

Donna Lynne Champlin

Woman You Three Out Saw Plot

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

Bryant H. McGill

Hope Purpose Destination Self Plot

The redemption plot is one of the oldest story shapes.

Story Redemption Shapes Plot Oldest

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 character. But plot? Eh, no.

Richard Linklater

Life Character Story Narrative Plot

If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Character Story Sexy You Lamp Plot

That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Beginning End First Middle Plot

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell.

Open Tell Show Rather Plot Means

Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.

Mystery Up Hardest Come Plot Tried

I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it.

Work Good Me Think Hard Plot

I retain characters more often than plot, but what seems to happen is that I latch on to specific moments, turns of phrase, and dialogue as touchstones for me to recall what happened in the book. Kind of like freeze-frame.

Me Book Moments Kind More Plot

I'm open to do a Filipino drama if I like the role or if the plot is attractive to me.

Me Drama Open Filipino Role Plot

I think situations are more important than plot and character.

Character Think Important More Plot

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.

Daniel Woodrell

Character Writing First Always Plot

If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

Patrick McHenry

You Stop Connected Hand Out Plot

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

Write Always Leave Things Like Plot

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

Grief Queen King Story Plot Then

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

Ideas Construction Start Write Plot

A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.

Character Only Writer Plot Volume

It's amazing how far you can get into a plot before you figure out what you're doing.

Amazing Doing You How Far Out Plot

Jill Eisenstadt's comic second novel, 'Kiss Out,' is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.

Stephen McCauley

Work Failure Simple Kiss Out Plot

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