[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
“Nothing belongs to itself anymore. These trees are yours because you once looked at them. These streets are yours because you once… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
A. E. Maxwell wrote one of the smartest, most consistent PI series in recent memory. Big plots, great villains, and a kickass… — Tim Maleeny Copy Share Image
Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
I need it all: in-depth characterization, fantastic/warped world building, a plot that could out-race Secretariat, and a 'voice.' I need to hear… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A person without an Apple watch is perfectly content with his present watch but when he sees his friends buying the watch,… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader?… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I studied Hitchcock and Josef von Sternberg under Richard Dillard at Hollins, and that year under his tutelage just completely rewired my… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
We began to do little things, have little scenes where we just talked about things that had nothing to do with the… — Don Knotts Copy Share Image
Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Bangkok 8 is one of the most startling and provocative mysteries that I've read in years. The characters are marvelously unique, the… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Democrats had a secret meeting in Reid's office on Halloween night at 6:15 and they hatched this plot, ... They said the… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this… — Billy West Copy Share Image
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