I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I write my scripts on a whim, without worrying about plot points and graphs. — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it... — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces. — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
You go to the marketplace and there are seventeen consciousnesses moving in and out. Sometimes you want the same shirt that I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
We don't usually start out with a plot that we can pitch in two lines. We spend a year brainstorming and discussing… — Joachim Trier Copy Share Image
So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The past record of man is burdened with accounts of assasinations, secret combines, palace plots and betrayals in war. But in spite… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality… — George Washington Copy Share Image