Plot Simplicity Quotes

While I was writing 'Elizabeth Is Missing' and struggling with the intricacies of the plot, I told myself the next book would be really simple and linear, and I'd have it all worked out before I set down a single word.

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.

I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.

I came on board 'Clown' because it was a very simple story, and it was a very nice script and a very refreshing take on a kind of The Brothers Grimm fable, you know?

I have a plot, but not much happens.

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done.

Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. Hell or High Water's a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank.

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.