Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions? — Ellen Douglas Copy Share Image
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
J.R.R.Tolkien has confessed that about a third of the way through The Fellowship of the Ring, some ruffian named Strider confronted the… — Ansen Dibell Copy Share Image
You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
'Rozabal' was theological while 'Chanakya' is political. Unlike 'Rozabal,' which was about research, the aim of 'Chanakya' is plot, plot, plot, which… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier… — Eric Wight Copy Share Image
When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they… — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
I once had an editor advise me, as I was revising one of my early novels, to add more characters. I played… — Elizabeth Sims Copy Share Image
A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the… — Patricia Richardson Copy Share Image
Anthony Ryan is a new fantasy author destined to make his mark on the genre. His debut novel, Blood Song, certainly has… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make Star Wars, but I need… — Edward Burns Copy Share Image
Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise,… — Austin Grossman Copy Share Image
So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I think the great thing about the Jack Ryan films is that the plot and the story always take center stage. If… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
