And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the… — Arthur Keith 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
From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms… — Ovid Copy Share Image
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot. — Don DeLillo 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
An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved… — Thorne Smith Copy Share Image
Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Steve [King] has been incredibly supportive. He's also really good about getting back to me when I have questions about plot or… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
For me, Modern Warfare 3 's plot makes its signature turn around the bend when Russia invades Europe. As in, all of… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Believe in Yourself Why must we see something to believe in its existence?The wind itself cannot be seen by man, but all… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost.… — William Raspberry Copy Share Image
The Illusionist is the storyteller in so many ways. Symbols become his obsession. It's not simply about creating plot - one must… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“Not telling everything you know is not the same as telling a lie.” — Glenda Bailey-Mershon Copy Share Image
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