I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or… — Cofer Black Copy Share Image
I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I don't think I do any formal research. Life is my research. I always begin with a character. I write a chapter… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
It's hard to plan and plot attacks against America if you're on the run, and that's exactly what our brave professionals are… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I really felt sometimes like I was physically pulling the plot, and it was heavy. I'm sure it didn't look great that… — Shelley Long Copy Share Image
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. — David Shields Copy Share Image
This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, . . . This land… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
I usually have Kafka biography in my bathroom. It's a book I can open at random and feel interested in immediately. It's… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
You go to the marketplace and there are seventeen consciousnesses moving in and out. Sometimes you want the same shirt that I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
