The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee… — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau. — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
In comics, there are depths that don't reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you might consider anal about 'Watching the Watchmen'… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is… — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz accused Republicans of trying to make it a crime to be an illegal alien. Democrats see a conspiracy… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier,… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
For me, Modern Warfare 3 's plot makes its signature turn around the bend when Russia invades Europe. As in, all of… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative.… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
