Bigs Quote by Harry Turtledove

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels…

— David Brin

Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

— Brandon Sanderson

Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.

— Marquis de Sade

One of the things we excel at over the years is that the enemy never knows what surprises we are preparing for it.

— Yoav Gallant

The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

— Richard Quest

What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.

— Arthur Golden

We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.

— Dominic Cummings

“Conspiracy theories—feverishly creative, lovingly plotted—are in fact fictional stories that some people believe. Conspiracy theorists connect real data points and imagined data points into…

— Jonathan Gottschall

“Let's imagine... if you glimpsed the future, you were frightened by what you saw, what would you do with that information? You would go…

— Hugh Laurie playing Governor Nix in Tommorowland

Maybe it was just me shorting myself to hedge my expectations. As a fan, I was excited about the project. If you look at…

— Steven Yeun

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

— Andrew Stanton

We were suddenly getting big, with burgeoning capabilities on all sides, but very clumsy, knew we were on some kind of ride, and things…

— Charles R. Morris