#plot

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#basic #decided #i #i always #i write

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in. ↗

— Dean Rusk

#sleeping #two-thirds #us #while #world

Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in our border security. After infiltrating our country, the terrorists were able to conceal their real identities, and thereby plot their attacks without fear of being apprehended. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#advantage #after #apprehended #attacked #attacks

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#am #happy #i #i am #kind

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.' ↗

— John Sayles

#character #day #dialogue #feel #get

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#character #enough #get #head #hired

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. ↗

— William Shatner

#blank #character #creative #creative art #ending

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#full #how #life #me #means

I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something. ↗

— John Stamos

#before #every #exercise #get #guy

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics. ↗

— George Stephen

#basics #books #came #decided #did