“There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.” PeopleThinkingWantImportantRealCharacterStoriesBigsWantedStarsHappenedTelevisionDrugHappeningsInstrumentsPlot80s Author:Jessica Pare
“Mockumentary formats are great for a couple of things. One of them is delivering the toughest part of any sitcom episode, what writers call "pipe" - the nuts and bolts of the story where you explain what's happening, the boring plot stuff.” StoriesStuffCoupleHappeningsBoringPlotNutsEpisodesPipeSitcomFormatBoltsDeliveringNuts And Bolts Author:Michael Schur
“Each piece of dialogue MUST be "something happening". . .The "amusing" for its OWN sake should above all be censored. . .The functional use of dialogue for the plot must be the first thing in the writer's mind. Where functional usefulness cannot be established, dialogue must be left out.” ShouldMindFirstsUseLeftPiecesHappeningsSakeThings HappenDialoguePlotAmusingUsefulnessLeft OutCensored Author:Elizabeth Bowen
“The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in theatre is- that you can be watching this thing happening with actors and costumes and light and set and language, and even plot, and something emerges from beyond that, and that's the image part that I'm looking for, that sort of added dimension.” LightActorsLanguageInterestHappeningsTheatreThings HappenInvisibleFantasticDimensionsPlotCostumes Book:Fool for Love and Other Plays Source: Fool for Love and Other Plays
“I can't imagine otherwise - I guess Virginia Woolf could write wonderful novels where the women never have sex, and her novels work. But for me, I don't think I could write a plot without sex happening somewhere.” ThinkingWritingI CanSexNovelImagineWonderfulHappeningsPlotVirginiaWoolf Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots so by the time I got to the last one I could anticipate what was happening too easily. But her characterizations are amazing.” ThinkingMadeLastsReadingMistakeSixHappeningsPlotJaneAnticipateSimilarityMade A MistakeAustenCharacterizationI Made A Mistake Author:Stephen Dobyns