#plot

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

The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#find #generic #hutch #most #plot

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#assassins #death #die #dying #fear

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#character #character development #development #furthers #graphic