Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For me, the lives of children and teens are interesting - they are always changing. There's just so much to sort through.… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
History meets romance meets suspense! Compelling, original and wildly romantic, Beatriz Williams’ prose is stunning and the plot edge-of-your-seat gripping. OVERSEAS is… — Tilly Bagshawe Copy Share Image
The needlework of lies and rumors seeks to distract peoples attention from the daily business of governance under the Presidents leadership. Those… — Eduardo Ermita Copy Share Image
I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything. — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I hate the word juicy in describing anything: lips, plots, oranges. But especially novels. It feels - icky. Reminds me of saliva. — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
There is nothing - no program, no hobby, no vice, no crime - that does not 'create jobs'. Tsunamis, computer viruses and… — Chris Horner Copy Share Image
