Elizabeth Sims Quotes

Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move forward all at once. Interruptions happen, change rushes in, we juggle three or ten balls at once. Readers don’t expect continuous narratives.

Elizabeth Sims

• Balls
• Flow
• Narrative
• Plot
• Interruptions

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• Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Better
  • Expectations
  • Flow

• Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Story
  • Economics
  • Narrative

• I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Think
  • Popular
  • Hunger

• Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • Most
  • Filmmaking
  • Narrative

• My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.

  

  Kajol
  • Kids
  • Control
  • Stop

• Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.

  

  Han Suyin
  • History
  • Single
  • Flow

• I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Small
  • Hand
  • Beginning

• My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Language
  • Stories
  • Plot

• Let it flow, while I pump it slow, then I speed it up, heat it up, make it more nasty.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Up
  • Sex
  • Speed

• Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Building
  • Appearance
  • Balls

• Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Fate
  • Narrative
  • Tvs

• As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.

  

  Ian Gardner
  • Mind
  • Space
  • Flow

• I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Trying
  • Brain
  • Flow

• Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Writing
  • Facts
  • Fantasy

• The balls they hit were elevated in the (strike) zone. It was a mater of making the adjustments to keep the ball down and get some ground balls.

  

  Jamie Moyer
  • Balls
  • Strike
  • Zone

• I try to weave a secret into each plot. It's the thread that holds the rest of the story fabric together. In fact, it's the reason for the story. I hint at the secret early on. Immediately I want the reader to get the feeling that something here isn't quite right. It helps maintain the suspense if a puzzling element is introduced in the first few pages of the book, but the answer isn't revealed until the final ones. Hopefully, readers want to know what the heck is really going on, and it's the desire to find out that keeps them turning pages.

  

  Sandra Brown
  • Secret
  • Plot
  • Weave

• Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Giving
  • Wish
  • Balls

• We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.

  

  Vincent Price
  • World
  • Balls
  • Broke

• If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it will come back to you the same way every time. But if you shift the wall a few degrees it will come back another way.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Wall
  • Tennis
  • Balls

• All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too.

  

  Camara Laye
  • Ballet
  • Beats
  • Dancer

• Life... by Marshall Mathers... What is life ? Life is like a big obstacle put in front of your optical to slow you down... And everytime you think you gotten past it It's gonna come back around and tackle you to the damn ground

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Past

• What social media has done - Facebook, Twitter - is show the audience. I don't have an audience. When I make my work, it just goes out into the ether. I have a thick skin and it just brings me down to earth, you know, to realize how out-there and far away and paltry the audience is that gets what I'm saying. It's depressing if I let it get to me. And it's the same with hanging a show, the way it's put up, like, three stories high and you can't read a single word.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Done
  • Earth
  • Skins

• Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move forward all at once. Interruptions happen, change rushes in, we juggle three or ten balls at once. Readers don’t expect continuous narratives.

  

  Elizabeth Sims
  • Balls
  • Flow
  • Narrative