Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype… — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a… — Betty White Copy Share Image
The art of the writer, like that of the player, is attained by slow degrees. The power of distinguishing and discriminating comick… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
There have always been dreamers. Men and women who catch a glimpse of something beyond themselves who dare to reach for goals… — Tommy Tenney Copy Share Image
I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end -… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
In the theater, you're so much more in charge as an actor. For better or for worse, you know what the audience… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Have you ever visited that portion of Erin's plot that offers its sympathetic soil for the minute survey and scrutinous examination of… — Amanda McKittrick Ros Copy Share Image
CBS announced they're canceling As The World Turns. Don't worry though, if you're addicted to the twisted plots, the intrigue, the illicit… — Craig Ferguson 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
For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot… — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
Life doesn't come in plot points or setups and payoffs. Life washes over you and passes. — Glen Powell Copy Share Image
I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable.… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
There's a stigma that guys hate romance and hate love, but that's not true. Look at 'Iron Man.' There's a whole through-line… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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