Dead people Quote by Kristen Tracy

Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike…

— Leigh Brackett

“All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots, terrorist plots, lovers’ plots, narrative plots, plots that are part…

— Don DeLillo

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

— Renata Adler

“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people…

— Anne Lamott

“Psychological death is the key to all romances, isn't it? If the two lovers don't get together, they will each miss out on their…

— James Scott Bell

All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do…

— Ethan Coen

As writers and readers, we're drawn to conflict. It's that ancient theory of plot that's written on the whiteboard during every fiction workshop, characters…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

“Relationships and dating don't always have the perfect narrative arc like they do in the movies. In real life, nothing happens in an order…

— Hannah Witton

In a romantic comedy, it's usually a good idea to have people who can't stand the fact that they are attracted to each other.

— Amanda Peet

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

— Jeffery Deaver