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All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do it. Ethan Coen

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To me, action has to come from the plot. Farhan Akhtar

Me Action Plot Come

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it. Gael Garcia Bernal

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There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. After that we stayed in a rented house for the next 15 years. Gagan Narang

Buy Time Parents Plot Stayed Had Tournaments House Years Off Sell After Land Next Rifle Competitive

I write my scripts on a whim, without worrying about plot points and graphs. Gautham Menon

Worrying Plot About Write Points Without Whim Scripts

The villain drives the plot. Gayle Lynds

Plot Drives Villain

When 'American Born Chinese' started getting a lot of attention, I freaked out a little bit because I realized that up until then I had just been doing comics by following my gut. I didn't really know much about plot structure or anything; I kind of just followed my gut. Gene Luen Yang

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I was not the young heroic model for 'Hamlet.' I tended to play those characters that orbited around them: the rogues and the rat bags and the idiots and the fools and the clowns that sway the plot somehow from a tangent. Geoffrey Rush

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What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things? George Villiers

Devil Plot Signify Fine Except Does Things Bring

If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion. Geraldine Brooks

Life doesn't come in plot points or setups and payoffs. Life washes over you and passes. Glen Powell

Life You Plot Points Over Come Passes

For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters. Greg Rucka

Character Me Out Plot Characters Had Sure Always

It really helps if you know your subject matter immediately. I find that enormously useful because then you can concentrate on all the usual novelistic things - the character, the plot and so forth - and you don't have to spend an enormous amount of time learning another trade, essentially. Gregory Benford

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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design. H. P. Lovecraft

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It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be. H. P. Lovecraft

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I was a theater actor back in the U.K., and you knew the whole play, so you could plot your storyline and character. And then I did 'Lost' and didn't know, and it was kind of frustrating, but I enjoyed it. Henry Ian Cusick

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I wrote a book called 'Doll Bones', which was another middle-grade book, and when I was writing it, I needed a place in the U.S. that made bone china. And there are only two places in the U.S. that make bone china. They made it by grinding down actual cow bones. It was a plot point. It was a creepy doll book. Holly Black

I have a plot, but not much happens. Howard Nemerov

Plot Happens Much

We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration. Hu Jintao

Focal Plot Must See Area Dividing Hostile Long-Term Clearly Ideological Forces Cultural China Fields International Strategic

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points. Iris Johansen

The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going on a three-day fishing trip, I plot each day. I put most of that in a little bag. If I'm going from there to work on golf courses for a few days, I plot that trip. Jack Nicklaus

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I'm never so into the three-act movie thing. I know that's the form that people talk about, but it seems to me, in the movie, you just have to keep charging forward. You couldn't start over again like you do after an intermission. You just had to keep the plot moving forward. James Lapine

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