We must remember that there’s more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going – blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES That larger story in 'Salvage the Bones' is just about survival, and I think that, in the en... JESMYN WARD What happened is the least of it. It’s a novel, and once you’ve finished a novel, what happened ... JAVIER MARíAS What happened is the least of it. It’s a novel, and once you’ve finished a novel, what happened ... JAVIER MARíAS Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There'... RICHARD LINKLATER I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pie... SPIKE LEE My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots.... JULIET MARILLIER All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lov... DON DELILLO Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and oursel... NATHAN MYHRVOLD Great characters- They are pivotal for a great plot. THEN a solid plot: Why then? If you do not have... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller chara... DAVID MORSE The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that ... J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories t... LASSE HALLSTROM Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories. CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of strugg... KATE BERNHEIMER Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama,... MAL PEET I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possi... SHEPARD SMITH And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for.... TIM O'BRIEN You read in any war stories - World War II, whatever - that there are many, many heroes. There are t... DAVE FILONI I have asked a lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up wit... SOURCE UNKNOWN Plot, plot and more plot. Many layers to the storytelling and a huge cast of characters that are ver... JOHN IRVING Stories are a different kind of true. EMMA DONOGHUE And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur,... ERIN MORGENSTERN I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are sho... LYNN ABBEY We got kind of into a rhythm at 'Parks' because there were so many characters that we had an... ALAN YANG I said that I have finished telling my story, not that the story is finished. I said before that no ... HERBERT ROSENDORFER There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories ... CHARLES DE LINT Certainly, it's nice to have one of our own be recognized for such an interesting and clearly courag... DAVID MALEY I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used whe... VIRGINIA WOOLF In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individu... ADAM JOHNSON There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones. JODI PICOULT There are so many stories and so many important people buried here. Our hope is that we can do this ... WENDY BARKER Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has l... PADRAIC PEARSE Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has l... PADRAIC PEARSE Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has ... PADRAIC PEARSE Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has l... GEORGE GISSING Making it big ? there are happy stories about that. And there are sad stories. CONARD FOWKES There are only so many stories, and half of that has to do with the execution of it and half of it h... DANA DELANY The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in... AND CITY Desperate Housewives. AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it. AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-... AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte... AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana. JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight, JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent, JILL AND A story is never about one person. It has a full cast of characters, connected by blood or love or j... SHAUNA NIEQUIST My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Heroes are more than just stories, they’re people. And people are complicated; people are strange.... JOEL CORNAH Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it no... TIM O'BRIEN A myth is a story that is "more than true." Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at ... LISA SEGER In a culture dish, stem cells from fat can acquire properties that are similar to bone, cartilage, n... ADAM KATZ There are many stories that don't get covered with two newspapers, and I can't imagine how many stor... BLOIS OLSON I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one t... IAN HACKING I decided there and then to sue the bastards. BARRY SHEENE And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would tak... LOMBARD PHILIP LOMBARD You know... we all have stories. We all have unique experiences that make each and everyone of us di... G. BRIAN BENSON There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discover... HANNAH KENT We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and ... DONALD MILLER In attempting to reach the genuine psychological reason for the popularity of detective stories, it ... G.K. CHESTERTON There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of s... BELLE BOYD Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These ... CHINUA ACHEBE I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects... NICHOLAS TRANDAHL No story is more beautiful than the Gospel, even though it is a story full of pain and nails and hat... PETER KREEFT I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious... JIM JARMUSCH It's amazing that there are all these stories out there, and that it's so dangerous, and yet no one ... GREG SKIDMORE I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that su... ETGAR KERET There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones. JODI PICOULT It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or idea... ALAN MOORE There are so many stories about boys becoming heroes, learning their powers and becoming incredibly ... CASSANDRA CLARE There are very few stories from those that were actually there, ... (and) his story was breathtaking... BERNIE FARBER As Hamlet said to Ophelia, ”God has given you one face, and you make yourself another." The battle... EMILY THORNE In a culture that is becoming ever more story-stupid, in which a representative of the Coca-Cola com... GEORGE SAUNDERS ...when one considers that there are more than 750,000 police officers in the United States and that... DAVID KLINGER We are focusing on bringing the stories of these women to the world. These stories must be told if w... EVE ENSLER When I tell people there are three stories in 'Thunderstruck' that were from the same wrecke... ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Digression is my passion. I'm not kidding. I love telling the main stories, but in some ways, wh... ERIK LARSON I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. Th... G.K. CHESTERTON I remember my mother telling me earlier that we are nothing more than our stories. I look at the mas... CARRIE RYAN We spent hours trying to determine what the top 25 stories are and what the impact of these was, ...... LINDA BELL There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious:... SEAN STEWART Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly ... ERIN MORGENSTERN When we change the shape of the Land, we alter the contents and contexts of our collective, familial... ARI BERK A myth is a story that is "more than true." Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at ... LINDA SEGER We are nothing more than our stories and who we love. What we pass on, how we exist … it’s havin... CARRIE RYAN Within his stories there are textual references to blind storytellers, remember Homer (the Homers) m... SUSAN BLOIR There are too many sad stories. These animals are not inanimate pieces of property. We have to reach... DOLORIS GIANNINI Well, it developed into something very different than we thought it was going to be. Initially we sa... DWAYNE MCDUFFIE I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot. JAMES NORTON All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religi... HARVEY COX Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when y... TIM O'BRIEN Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story betwe... PAULO COELHO First, relax. ... And my second helpful hint is that you should not try to memorize anything you rea... FRANK SMITH I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would k... BEN OKRI Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are... JASON ALEXANDER
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WALTER BAGEHOT All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only... WALTER BAGEHOT Life is a school of probability. WALTER BAGEHOT It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause... WALTER ANNENBERG I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty. WALTER ANNENBERG I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence. WALTER ANNENBERG Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minu... WALTER ANNENBERG God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender. WALTER ANNENBERG You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others. WALTER ANNENBERG What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold. WALTER ANNENBERG The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energi... WALTER ANNENBERG Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round. WALTER ANNENBERG I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer. WALTER ANNENBERG Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life. WALTER ANNENBERG Accomplish something every day of your life. WALTER ANNENBERG People who think about art as an investment are pathetic. WALTER ANNENBERG The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges. WALTER ANNENBERG In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated. WALTER ANNENBERG Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A. WALTER ANNENBERG My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country. 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