Books Quote by Billy Wilder Download Open image ““That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.”” — Billy Wilder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“Maybe more of us should have plots. Let's take them out of books and put them back in life where they belong.” — Jennifer Ball Copy Share Image
“So now you have it. The plot, the whole plot, and nothing but the plot.” — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“The character drives the plot, and the plot molds the character’s arc. They cannot work independently.” — K.M. Weiland Copy Share Image
“At that point only two things were clear to me: first, that the plot had to move readers as much as it moved me;” — Antonio Garrido Copy Share Image
“Stories are no good, not even the short ones, because by the time you get to the second page he's forgotten the beginning. Where… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
“...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.” — Peggy Kopman-Owens Copy Share Image
If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
Helen: You've got talent and ambition. Don: Talent? Ambition? That's dead long ago. That's drowned. That's drifting around with a bloated belly on a… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make,… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
