I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.
[Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]
Tags: wisdom paraphrased books beauty belief book children-s-books value basis offense philip-pullman plot young-adult
I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).
Connie WillisTags: plot agatha-christie plotting
When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
Charles BaxterTags: writing fiction mystery destiny discovery perfection plot overdetermination
Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
Alan MooreTags: life evil apocalypse plot mastermind ozymandias
Character is plot, plot is character.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. . . . Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It's about words. It's about a man dealing with life. Okay?
J.R. MoehringerWriting fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
Khaled HosseiniTags: truth art books deception lies writing on-fiction fiction novels plot weaving
Be a good listener in the special way a story requires: note the manner of presentation; the development of plot, character; the addition of new dramatic sequences; the emphasis accorded to one figure or another in the recital; and the degree of enthusiam, of coherence, the narrator gives to his or her account.
Robert ColesBut he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen.
Joyce Carol OatesI have a clever and devious plan.
Steven BrustTags: plot
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