I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement,… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I dont believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith].... It appears to me, to… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
Fanboys are a creator's blessing and curse. If a fanboy likes you, they love you. Obsessively. If you cross them with some… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it... — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. — Margaret Atwood 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
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