“The plot is deceptively simple. Condensed even fur- ther, it might read as a personal ad in some questfinder’s forum: Unlikely hero… — Michael P. Williams Copy Share Image
I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US... But, for the first time… — Gideon Rachman Copy Share Image
The thing with 'The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo' is that is it's like an Agatha Christie plot, and an investigating journalist… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing,… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I love sentences. I love characters. But most of all, perhaps, I love to work on plot, and that may be where… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted… — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
By denying people's sense of visual beauty in painting and sculpture , melody in music , meter and rhyme in poetry ,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base.… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us,… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
We are now at a point where because we in fact have been successful at stopping a number of plots, a threat… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's… — Anna Biller Copy Share Image
From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave;… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
The families of rabbits or woodchucks will eat the salad greens just before they are ready to be picked; I plot ways… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
As for vegetables, I do not consider a plot of ground devoted to them worthy of the honorable name of garden. Vegetables… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot… — Patrick Rothfuss 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
I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
When I started in television, it was brand new. It was the miracle over in the corner of your room. Now the… — Betty White Copy Share Image
“NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
