It takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it. — Matt Charman 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
People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“The plot of the Adam Bede is a way of life. And there is no contentment and fulfillment in this way. (Bhutta)” — Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar Copy Share Image
Every film-maker while writing a screenplay comes to a landmark point in the plot where he thinks a scene can be narrated… — Manoj Kumar Copy Share Image
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“The term plot is key both to sermon preparation and to sermon presentation.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
That's what life is, it's the small struggles. You walk down the street for half an hour, you see half an hour… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total… — Mike Figgis Copy Share Image
Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
In the theater, you're so much more in charge as an actor. For better or for worse, you know what the audience… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
One of the stories that dominates our family literature was the fact that my maternal grandfather contracted for - I don't know… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
“The Comedy of Errors has been consistently under-appreciated, I’d argue, in part because we don’t know how to appreciate plot. Contemporary culture,… — Emma Smith Copy Share Image
I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable.… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
A president of the United States, again, has to bring people together, have a position. We need to be able to penetrate… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
