Book Quote by Samuel Goldwyn Download Open image “This book has too much plot and not enough story.” — Samuel Goldwyn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Enough Funny Plot Stories Stupid Too much
Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The quality of this novel is the way the plot is treated and not the plot itself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to… — Terry Pratchett 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
“Sooooooooo much literary fiction I get in the old query inbox is plotless. It's just a character musing about the vagaries and eccentricities of… — Nathan Bransford literary agent Copy Share Image
Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“As for 'too much description,' well, opinions differ. We write the books we want to read. And I want to read books that are… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business. — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
Having integrity...means being completely true to what is inside you - to what you know is right...what you feel you must do, regardless of… — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years. — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
[when asked by his secretary if she should destroy all files that were over ten years old] Yes, but keep copies. — Samuel Goldwyn 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
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
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
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
