No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident… — Carl Barks Copy Share Image
Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
“We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.” — Kamand Kojouri 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
To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
The don't-ask-don't-tell approach to plot and character that 'The Hurt Locker' relies on to set itself in motion doesn't offend me politically.… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
If you look at the attached plot you will see that the land also shows the 1940s blip (as I'm sure you… — Tom Wigley Copy Share Image
I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of… — Warren Leight Copy Share Image
I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But, as an actress, you don't want to run into these scenes, willy-nilly. The couple that I did do were important for… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
This is all thousands of years old. It's the same the world over. Anyone who has ever walked upright has loved beer,… — Alan D. Eames Copy Share Image
He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
We get to get into the nitty-gritty and the minutiae of the way they relate now, and that's really valuable. We just… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
We go to the mountain for enlightenment, for self-realization, for adventure, for discovery. It's pregnant with meaning. When people see a mountain,… — Joe Rohde Copy Share Image
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
Regarding themselves as irreplaceable, both Lenin and Stalin tried in different ways to destroy their successors - Lenin through a testament that… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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