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
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into… — Steven Zaillian Copy Share Image
yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends; the line between good and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I followed… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing… — Andrew Stanton Copy Share Image
“In a movie, people only talk when they want something. If your characters are not pursuing their needs in the scene, they… — Dan Joseph Decker Copy Share Image
Every time I read anything, whether it be a book, a script or anything, I automatically imagine myself as the boy in… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“The plot is deceptively simple. Condensed even fur- ther, it might read as a personal ad in some questfinder’s forum: Unlikely hero… — Michael P. Williams Copy Share Image
What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
