It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of… — Shirley Hazzard 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
Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires. — Robert Gregory Browne Copy Share Image
The whole plot's to get you to stop from doing what you do, to do better than you've done. — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of… — Patricia Hamill Copy Share Image
In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it… — Charlie Brooker 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
As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their… — Theresa May Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent… — Roy Kesey 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
When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Another mistake is presenting too much background information, and doing so in the first few pages. Writers should begin their stories with… — Evan Marshall Copy Share Image
There is nothing - no program, no hobby, no vice, no crime - that does not 'create jobs'. Tsunamis, computer viruses and… — Chris Horner Copy Share Image
“The tragic fear and pity may be aroused by the Spectacle; but they may also be aroused by the very structure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
“Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.” — Vann Chow Copy Share Image
My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I'm very close to my family. Not like these big stars - not mentioning any names - who lose the plot and… — Jennifer Ellison Copy Share Image
This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The term plot is key both to sermon preparation and to sermon presentation.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
Every film-maker while writing a screenplay comes to a landmark point in the plot where he thinks a scene can be narrated… — Manoj Kumar Copy Share Image
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