Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
“The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
The absurdist is concerned with the search for meaning in the Universe. He believes this search to be meaningless--hence the disintegration of… — Walter Wykes Copy Share Image
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow… — Judith Ortiz Cofer Copy Share Image
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced,… — Graham Nelson Copy Share Image
There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance. — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields,… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That's what life is, it's the small struggles. You walk down the street for half an hour, you see half an hour… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message. We will bring to justice those who plot to attack… — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense. — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
