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Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

Patrick Rothfuss
plot half character

But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns.

Patrick Rothfuss
rough-drafts plot writing

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.

Paul Valery
plot light tree

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention to formal devices of structure, composition and framing.

Peter Greenaway
plot cinema ideas

Disturbing and intriguing. The Synchronicity Factor is much more than a page-turning thriller, for its remarkable plot is rooted in real science and real history.

Peter Lovesey
pages-turning plot real

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.

Peter Maxwell Davies
plot mind thinking

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

Peter Temple
plot grief writing
I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up i... by Peter Temple

I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

Peter Temple
plot morning character

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

Peter Tork
threatening comedy plot
To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself. by Philippa Gregory

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

Philippa Gregory
devil plot son

In the best nonfiction, it seems to me, you're always made aware that you are being engaged with a supple mind at work. The story line or plot in nonfiction consists of the twists and turns of a thought process working itself out.

Phillip Lopate
twists plot mind
Oh what would Rome be without a plot? by Pope Alexander VI

Oh what would Rome be without a plot?

Pope Alexander VI
rome plot
I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all. by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
nutcrackers plot

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.

Ralph Merkle
plot technology land
Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot. by Ramakrishna

Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.

Ramakrishna
plot evil doe
Spy plots are hard, really hard. by Rashida Jones

Spy plots are hard, really hard.

Rashida Jones
spy hard plot
Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right. by Ray Davies

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

Ray Davies
bombers plot politics

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
self-reliance toil plot
When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun. by Raymond Chandler

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

Raymond Chandler
plot gun men
The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from... by Renata Adler

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

Renata Adler
magic plot whole
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