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Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so that no one would recognize the source. He didn't count on the resourcefulness of modern scholars, who have to discover things like this to become associate professors.

Richard Armour
plot history thinking
Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the sc... by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
plot scene drama

I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot.

Richard Hell
plot writing fiction
My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually co... by Richelle Mead

My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.

Richelle Mead
muse ungrateful plot
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are v... by Roald Dahl

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

Roald Dahl
plot reason ideas
The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them. by Robert A. Heinlein

The meek shall inherit the earth - a 6 foot plot above them.

Robert A. Heinlein
plot earth feet

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven

Robert Gregory Browne
plot desire character

Paul Levinson has outdone himself: The Plot to Save Socrates is a philosophically rich gem full of big ideas and wonderful time-travel tricks.

Robert J. Sawyer
plot wonderful ideas
Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- by Robert Lowell

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme--

Robert Lowell
plot poetry blessed
A plot is two dogs and one bone. by Robert Newton Peck

A plot is two dogs and one bone.

Robert Newton Peck
plot dog two

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

Robert Olen Butler
plot trying character

It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line.

Robert Orben
scratches plot writing

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

Robin Furth
supportive plot kings

I was born inside the movie of my life. The visuals were before me, the audio surrounded me, the plot unfolded inevitably but not necessarily. I don't remember how I got into the movie, but it continues to entertain me.

Roger Ebert
audio plot remember

While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.

Roger Ebert
despair plot secret

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?

Roger Ebert
plot baby thinking

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

Rufus Wainwright
plot demise way
A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives... by Rupert Holmes

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.

Rupert Holmes
plot careers song

Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!

Sadegh Hedayat
plot sick writing

The fantastic thing about the theatre is that it can make something be seen that's invisible, and that's where my interest in theatre is- that you can be watching this thing happening with actors and costumes and light and set and language, and even plot, and something emerges from beyond that, and that's the image part that I'm looking for, that sort of added dimension.

Sam Shepard
plot theatre light
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