“The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
An action movie should, like any other, follow the narrative traditions of literature. That means there should be subtlety, a slow build… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health nut. The plot thickens. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device. — David Langford Copy Share Image
I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer… — Bailey Vincent Copy Share Image
In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
“Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme— why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?” — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
It takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it. — Matt Charman Copy Share Image
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat… — Nicholas Stoller Copy Share Image
I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
In Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I obviously read and adore traditional fiction. I teach traditional fiction, I also teach all kind of not-so-traditional fiction. And since I'm… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
