I always design a landscape with fixed horizons whether it be mountains or a stone wall around a 20-foot-square plot. — Rachel Lambert Mellon Copy Share Image
From a plot perspective, what I finally found for my touchstone was that I consider 'Upside' to be a loose telling of… — Becky Albertalli 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
Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film. — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
“The last time she was up here, she had been... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how… — Maggie Stiefvater 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
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do. — Erskine Caldwell 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
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
The culture industry perpetually cheats its consumers of what it perpetually promises. The promissory note which, with its plots and staging, it… — Theodor Adorno 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
Mirzapur's female characters are very strong, liberated women. Infact, the boys are leaning on us and we are contributing to the plot… — Shriya Pilgaonkar Copy Share Image
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“So now you have it. The plot, the whole plot, and nothing but the plot.” — Elizabeth Peters 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
For me, any story I tackle begins with the human relationships and not the plot. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
