Elegant Quote by Billy Wilder Download Open image “The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.” — Billy Wilder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Elegant Hiding Inspirational Plot Subtle Writing
I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“I’d suggest that what works for me may work equally well for you. If you are enslaved to (or intimidated by) the tiresome tyranny… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun. — Gish Jen Copy Share Image
I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive. — Lisa Gardner 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
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 swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a group of… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes. — Adele Copy Share Image
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious. — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our spirit's aching… — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should… — John Venn Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant… — Ruchi Sanghvi Copy Share Image