If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer… — Bailey Vincent Copy Share Image
I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens. — David Corbett Copy Share Image
Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come… — Siegfried Lenz Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people,… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information… — Pia Zadora Copy Share Image
“To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
Most games follow a real railroad plot, no matter what you want, you're following their storyline to its unavoidable conclusion. I'd like… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Frog speaks in a “Ye Olde Englishy” dialogue that is as charming as it is grammatically suspect. No one else in 600… — Michael P. Williams Copy Share Image
“What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll--a soft roll, not a hard roll--and one cup of cocoa;… — Esther Hautzig Copy Share Image
With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The idea of suggesting that Hannibal Lecter - in the book, he has a sixth finger and red eyes, and so there… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer… — William Walton Copy Share Image
“I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding… — philip pullman Copy Share Image
Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns. — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
It's hard to plan and plot attacks against America if you're on the run, and that's exactly what our brave professionals are… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills. — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die at the end.” — Margaret Edson Copy Share Image
If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We will never be a part of any plot against those who are governing our country. — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“Details are where a theory can be held together or fall apart. The same is true about a plot.” — Sarah Richards Copy Share Image
