Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms… — Ovid Copy Share Image
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it... — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I write my scripts on a whim, without worrying about plot points and graphs. — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights. — Julie Carmen Copy Share Image
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
We don't experience our lives as plots. If I asked you to tell me what your last week was like, you're not… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches'… — Deborah Harkness 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
The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
I don't usually read my reviews. I've noticed older reviewers are much more bothered by the plot complications. Younger reviews don't seem… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The history of the world for the past several centuries and current events at home and abroad confirm the existence of such… — Benjamin H. Freedman Copy Share Image
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find… — Alexis Denisof Copy Share Image
The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces. — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions? — Ellen Douglas Copy Share Image
“A plot, whether abandoned by a reader or pursued rapturously, remains itself, and gets where it is headed even if nobody is… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
What I have to outline is action and plot because I'm not particularly good at that. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything. — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
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