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
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
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
Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything. — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know,… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going… — Jonathan Levine Copy Share Image
Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler 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
With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization,… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
