From plots and treasons Heaven preserve my years, But save me most from my petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren womb or grave;… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
I'd like to work with some of the videogame companies for the simple fact that they obviously need some sort of writer's… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
This is love: You stop bothering about the universal, the general, get sucked instead into the local and particular: When will I… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Most of us live in a fog. It's like life is a movie we arrived to 20 minutes late. You know something… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
DePaul's plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I was aware that I had to pay off things in a convincing emotional fashion, that I had to address the lingering… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit;… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I've made the decision to adhere to three general truths when it comes to my novels: There will be a love-story element… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I think that the government has an obligation to monitor communications that could reveal a plot to murder millions of Americans. Monitoring… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
I think this is the first time I've altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it's an occasion!… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I realised that what I loved was descriptive writing rather than something with a plot. — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery — the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called — is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
