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“Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it.”

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Author:Jane Alison

“I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.”

Years Three Next Four Kissing Goodbye Plot Four Years

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“[Ivy Wilkes] loves [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work, but is not satisfied by just looking at the paintings; she wants the painting to be her own. The plot grew naturally out of Ivy's personality (and flaws).”

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Author:Liza Campbell

“Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Watson love Mercy [Watson]. Eugenia hates Mercy. Baby likes Mercy. Mercy loves toast. And the plot, if you want to be so generous as to call it a plot, turns on those elements. love Mercy. Eugenia hates Mercy. Baby likes Mercy. Mercy loves toast. And the plot, if you want to be so generous as to call it a plot, turns on those elements.”

Ifs Want Hate Turns Baby Elements Mercy Likes Generous Plot Toasts Hate Me Watson

Author:Kate DiCamillo

“When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well when it was released on video, so we really didn't know what to do with the second plot.”

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Author:Jay Roach

“I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, "Yeah, it's slow and has no plot."”

Knows Kind Past Film Used Yeah Critics Plot

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“I hate the word juicy in describing anything: lips, plots, oranges. But especially novels. It feels - icky. Reminds me of saliva.”

Feels Hate Novel I Hate Lips Plot Orange Describing Juicy Saliva

Author:Lauren Grodstein

“In other words, you've got a journey as the plot, but it has to be in a lively environment, being able to create the mood. If you read "Pickman's Model," in other words, they're winding their way through the Boston Streets and [H.P.] Lovecraft researched what was there.”

Ifs Way Able Environment Journey Streets Models Mood Plot Boston Lively Lovecraft

Author:Paul Laffoley

“I find the best way to make things real is to just put two characters into a space and let them talk to each other in the way that they would talk to each other, and then see what they would say. I know it sounds weird, but that leads the plot and takes you in another direction.”

Knows Way Two Real Character Sound Space Best Way Plot

Author:Steven Knight

“Steve [King] has been incredibly supportive. He's also really good about getting back to me when I have questions about plot or characterization.”

Has Beens Kings Plot Supportive Characterization

Author:Robin Furth

“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.”

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Author:Stephen Dobyns

“For me, the lives of children and teens are interesting - they are always changing. There's just so much to sort through. All of this makes for good plots and complex characters.”

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Author:Renee Watson

“With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have to have a plot - I say "obviously," although I think a lot of fiction doesn't, and nothing seems to happen. But to me, there should be something that happens, and it should be at least vaguely plausible. And because the readers are going to be with these characters for a long time, you have to get to know them and like them and want to know what happens to them.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she is very clumsy and her plots are rubbish. But we don't read her for that. There are pages and pages of dialogue. What it requires is real effort and attention.”

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Author:Hilary Mantel

“The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in and plunge too far.”

Thinking Writing Fiction Plot Outlines Plunge

Author:Dave Barry

“I think that the government has an obligation to monitor communications that could reveal a plot to murder millions of Americans. Monitoring bowel movements? I'll leave that to some of the gay bloggers, that's much more their style.”

Thinking Government Millions Style Movement Communication Gay Murder Obligation Plot Bloggers Monitoring Bowel Movements

Author:Jeff Gannon

“Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).”

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Author:Peter Kreeft

“Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.”

Way Made Actors Becoming Plot

Author:David Duchovny

“Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.”

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Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“I actually think it's going to be the intriguing plot [ in Black Snake Moan] point that brings people into the film.”

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Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“What interests me about fiction is plot. And what interests me about plot is whether someone tells a story that moves me within the constraints of storytelling. And I have narrowly defined storytelling.”

Stories Moving Interest Fiction Storytelling Defined Plot Constraints

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“You go to the marketplace and there are seventeen consciousnesses moving in and out. Sometimes you want the same shirt that I want, and our thought bubbles collide a bit and that makes plot.”

Want Sometimes Moving Bits Consciousness Shirts Plot Bubbles Our Thoughts Marketplace Seventeen Moving In Collide

Author:George Saunders

“The concept of writing a novel and not knowing where it's going - I don't know how to do that. Novels are plot- and character-driven, so if I don't know what becomes of people, how can I know where it should begin?”

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Author:John Irving

“A person without an Apple watch is perfectly content with his present watch but when he sees his friends buying the watch, he will hanker for an Apple watch. The endless cycle of wanting, getting, and wanting again is part of the plot of Capitalism. It is the way Capitalism creates jobs. The only antidote is Buddhism that holds that people might be happier by renouncing desire rather than by striving to satisfy desire. But then how can the economy create enough jobs in a Buddhist society of "less is more."”

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Author:Philip Kotler

“The idea of suggesting that Hannibal Lecter - in the book, he has a sixth finger and red eyes, and so there is a devilry in Thomas Harris' presentation - so it felt like it was completely honest and appropriate for the character. And we often talk in the writers' room, "Okay, there is the Hannibal as the devil explanation of that plot point, but we also need to ground that in a reality that is answerable to the physics of the storytelling."”

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Author:Bryan Fuller

“I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution. The modern novels I read don't always deliver because I'm looking essentially for a story. As in Shakespeare, "The play's the thing." In particular I read detective stories for pacing, plot and suspense.”

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Author:Robert Cormier

“The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look at them now, you see the development of character and the twists of plot; but essentially they told stories. My mother didn't go to the movies because of a religious promise she made early in her life, and I used to go to movies and come home and tell her the plots of those old Warner Brothers/James Cagney movies, the old romantic love stories. Through these movies that had real characters, I absorbed drama, sense of pacing, and plot.”

“There is very little that is accidental in my work. I believe in serendipity for developments of plot, but the actual writing is arrived at by very hard work. The joy of writing doesn't mean that you don't get the backaches and headaches and the days when it's not coming.”

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Author:Robert Cormier

“I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if I can get them and grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, you can do this, and if I see that fire in their eyes, that's when I think I know a writer.”

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Author:Colum McCann

“Some people will always ground themselves very strongly in a piece of soil, a grandmother's property, a tiny plot of land, and that's great. But in the Age of Movement, there's no question that the number of people who don't - or can't - is growing exponentially.”

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Author:Pico Iyer

“I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my favorite plots.”

Knows Husband My Favorite Terror Monsters Plot

Author:Anna Biller

“I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have a few allies among weekly/monthly drama critics, and you sort of plot these things out and figure it out. But it's just what any writer goes through, periods of favor, periods of disfavor. And the trick is just to keep writing and to not let an obsession.”

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Author:Tony Kushner

“I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.”

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Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.”

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Author:Camilla Lackberg

“I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.”

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Author:Spike Lee

“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.The Sunday World was a dry-stall interlude in my wanderings.”

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“I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.”

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Author:Iain Banks

“Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.”

Two Character Storytelling Two Things Plot

Author:George Lucas

“It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.”

Writing Hard Plot

Author:David Mamet

“Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.'' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.”

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Author:Hilary Mantel

“Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.”

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Author:Marcel Marceau

“I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.”

Risk Willing Succeed Terrorist Plot

Author:Theresa May

“Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.”

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Author:Theresa May

“Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.”

Self Purpose Courses Literature Plot Destination Sense Of Self

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.”

Action Psychology Mystery Rely Motive Distinction Plot Sibling Thrillers

Author:Jon Meacham

“A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.”

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Author:Ralph Merkle

“Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.”

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Author:Timothy Murphy

“I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.”

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Author:Liam Neeson

“I have a plot, but not much happens.”

Happens Plot

Author:Howard Nemerov

“The way I pack is I look at how long I'll be gone and I pack day for day. If I'm going on a three-day fishing trip, I plot each day. I put most of that in a little bag. If I'm going from there to work on golf courses for a few days, I plot that trip.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

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