Mockumentary formats are great for a couple of things. One of them is delivering the toughest part of any sitcom episode, what… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story. — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up. — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors' gestures and facial expressions, with a very few… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
The romance is the primary plot in a story that has two plots. The second plot is not a subplot, but one… — Madeline Hunter Copy Share Image
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot. — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I detest the word plot. I never, never think of plot. I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters;… — Stirling Silliphant Copy Share Image
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly… — George Burns Copy Share Image
My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Wherever you have a plot of land, however small, plant a garden. Staying close to the soil is good for the soul. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
