Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts I never really dreamed of heaven much… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy,… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
I find the best way to make things real is to just put two characters into a space and let them talk… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
A writing teacher once told me that the most successful movies and books were simple plots about complex characters. You should be… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
“Be a good listener in the special way a story requires: note the manner of presentation; the development of plot, character; the… — Robert Coles Copy Share Image
The absurdist is concerned with the search for meaning in the Universe. He believes this search to be meaningless--hence the disintegration of… — Walter Wykes Copy Share Image
This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, each inextricably connected to the others; he must… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“In a movie, people only talk when they want something. If your characters are not pursuing their needs in the scene, they… — Dan Joseph Decker Copy Share Image
I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
One of my fave TV shows is Into the Badlands because martial arts staged well and magically and saturated colours and eye… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise,… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
My temper manifests itself when I can't find something. I could swear that there is a plot against me to put kitchen… — Tom Conti Copy Share Image
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message. We will bring to justice those who plot to attack… — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled,… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
As a writer, I try to appeal to the 'elusive boy audience' the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
“Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I followed… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow… — Judith Ortiz Cofer Copy Share Image
The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected.… — Patrick McHenry Copy Share Image
Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
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
