I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. Im constantly revising this as I go along.… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
After preliminary research, I zero in on an idea, and then I spend at least four months exploring the topic and in… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I always feel funny when I don't reveal things, especially to you [the press], who have supported us so much and are… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to… — Eric Allman Copy Share Image
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
According to the media, trans women were subject to pain and punch lines. Instead of proclaiming that I was not a plot… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
“He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, each inextricably connected to the others; he must… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost.… — William Raspberry Copy Share Image
A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response. — Kim Jong Il Copy Share Image
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made. — Bob Mayer 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
When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
This is the substance of our Plot-For those who play the Perfect Shot, There are ten thousand who do not. — Grantland Rice Copy Share Image
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
