"Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing â€“ by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesnâ€™t move forward all at once. Interruptions happen, change rushes in, we juggle three or ten balls at once. Readers donâ€™t expect continuous narratives."

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Source : "7 Ways to Add Great Subplots to Your Novel". www.writersdigest.com. December 17, 2012.

Elizabeth Sims

#Moving Quotes #Plot Quotes #Three Quotes

“Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity.”
“Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.”
“I like to go dancing, have a few beers. I like being alone, too. I have days where it's 'God, get me a shot of tequila.'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.”
“Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.”
“When I get that feeling, I want some sexual healing.”
“Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.”

Source : Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.307, University of Chicago Press
“It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.”

Source : Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.50, Northwestern University Press

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