Finding the discipline, the motivation, the focus, the passion to sit down in front of a blank piece of paper or a… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Disturbing and intriguing. The Synchronicity Factor is much more than a page-turning thriller, for its remarkable plot is rooted in real science… — Peter Lovesey Copy Share Image
“The Diverted Imperium by Stewart Stafford Welcome to my lush vineyard, As we crush poison grapes, Forcing that last vinegar sip, Of… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Since a photograph is frozen and mute, since there is no before and after, I don't want there to be a conscious… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else. — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
The history of the world for the past several centuries and current events at home and abroad confirm the existence of such… — Benjamin H. Freedman Copy Share Image
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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