People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“The plot of the Adam Bede is a way of life. And there is no contentment and fulfillment in this way. (Bhutta)” — Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing. — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
It takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it. — Matt Charman Copy Share Image
If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau. — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In 'Notting Hill,' I was part of a whole plot line over six scenes that was completely taken out. That was rather… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have… — Lorraine Adams Copy Share Image
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Characters who are absolutely sure about what they do, who plunge ahead without fear, are not that interesting. We don’t go through… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly… — George Burns Copy Share Image
In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Fanboys are a creator's blessing and curse. If a fanboy likes you, they love you. Obsessively. If you cross them with some… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I'm usually a panster and throw ideas down on computer the second they hit my brain. I even had to get off… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
There's a lot of two-hander dialogue in 'True Detective,' and I needed to place those guys in locations where there were other… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. I saw the core… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
![“No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.” quote by Andrew Sean Greer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/346/andrew-sean-greer-2689_atoms_no-one-would-have-known-from-how-he-held_1592335.jpg)
![“The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were all about two hours, or a little bit over two hours. With that extra 15 or 20 minutes, you can get to real character and you're not just stuck in plot.” quote by Judd Apatow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c3e/judd-apatow-1471_bits_the-ones-comedies-that-i-always-liked-wh_1025167.jpg)
![“When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well when it was released on video, so we really didn't know what to do with the second plot.” quote by Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/707/jay-roach-8154_austin_when-we-did-the-first-sequel-of-the-aust_2386299.jpg)