I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the… — Trey Anastasio Copy Share Image
A novel can educate to some extent, but first a novel has to entertain. That's the contract with the reader: you give… — Barbara Kingsolver 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
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Mohammed al-Qahtani was not alleged to be a leader of the Sept. 11 plot. He was not trained as a pilot. If… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next-… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The families of rabbits or woodchucks will eat the salad greens just before they are ready to be picked; I plot ways… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
I will destroy you. No matter how long it takes, no matter what it costs me. I won’t sleep, I won’t eat.… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody. — Jesse Michaels Copy Share Image
All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills. — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As for vegetables, I do not consider a plot of ground devoted to them worthy of the honorable name of garden. Vegetables… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I think that sometimes, romantic comedies have to be really broad, and that the plot of people falling in and out of… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
