Plot, or evolution, is life responding to environment; and not only is this response always in terms of conflict, but the really… — William Wallace Cook Copy Share Image
The argument that the countries use for the sheer increase in Muslim doctors is the sheer increase in the Muslim population. In… — Neil Cavuto Copy Share Image
In the late 1980s, Soviets were allowed to keep the wealth they created by raising vegetables on their garden plots. Although these… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches'… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel… — John Updike Copy Share Image
No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer… — William Walton Copy Share Image
It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the… — Gavin O'Connor Copy Share Image
One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home… — Anthea Turner Copy Share Image
I seem to wonder if we can reach some kind of new destination with cinema, or touch upon human existence in a… — Christoffer Boe Copy Share Image
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A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“What I ate for breakfast on school mornings was one buttered roll--a soft roll, not a hard roll--and one cup of cocoa;… — Esther Hautzig Copy Share Image
Most of the people who were responsible for 9/11 are now in custody or have been killed. But there are others, and… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such… — John Banville Copy Share Image
We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
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