He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil. — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or… — William Gurnall 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
If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die at the end.” — Margaret Edson Copy Share Image
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. — Vittorio Alfieri 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
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I would say I have sort of a natural gift for character, and following one person's point of view at a time,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
We go to the mountain for enlightenment, for self-realization, for adventure, for discovery. It's pregnant with meaning. When people see a mountain,… — Joe Rohde Copy Share Image
I can't imagine otherwise - I guess Virginia Woolf could write wonderful novels where the women never have sex, and her novels… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Cartoons for girls don't have to be a puddle of smooshy, cutesy-wootsy, goody-two-shoeness. Girls like stories with real conflict; girls are smart… — Lauren Faust Copy Share Image
He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But… — Francis Bacon 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
When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather… — Helen Eustis Copy Share Image
I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Giving consumers the choice of having it all in one big bite means different viewers are in many different places in the… — Michael K. Powell Copy Share Image
I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Friends now fast sworn, Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart, Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise Are still… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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