Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“What truly matters isn’t your feelings or even those of your characters—it’s the emotional experience of your audience.” — Will Raywood Copy Share Image
“Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly… — Robert Purvis Copy Share Image
From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed… — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the… — Jessica Stern Copy Share Image
There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think? — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
