It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to… — Alan Lightman 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
Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is very challenging to make a fresh screenplay based on a used plot. — Priyadarshan 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
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'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and… — Sarah Zettel 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
If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage?… — Alan Ayckbourn Copy Share Image
When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
But I'm a fairly mechanical worker - I tend not to think about themes so much as plot. I want to get… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
The past record of man is burdened with accounts of assasinations, secret combines, palace plots and betrayals in war. But in spite… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
