Simple Plot

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or plot:

    Uncontradicting solitude
    Supports me on its giant palm;
    And like a sea-anemone
    or simple snail, there cautiously
    Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)