Event Sequence Quotes

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.

The thing about looking back over Clinton's presidency, and probably anybody's presidency, is that when you look back, the events all line up in a way that makes sense. At the time, you don't know where it's going.

I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.

I think life is a chain of events.

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

Political history is not a sequence of incoherent and haphazard events but a chain of causes and effects.

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

What's happening in the world is a natural course of events.

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

Could it be that time is too narrow for all events? Could it happen that all the seats within time might have been sold? Worried, we run along the train of events, preparing ourselves for the journey.

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.

The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance. ..

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

Sometimes history speeds up..

Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.

I know there will be a WrestleMania 33 and 34 and 35. And hopefully 100.

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.