Quotes by Plot Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned with plot or story. And so music really helps - often I'll listen to the music and just write anything, just to get through. Tony Grisoni plot stories writing The story is not in the plot but in the telling. Ursula K. Le Guin plot stories writing There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories. Ursula K. Le Guin plot limits numbers Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us. Vanna Bonta plot events time You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers including me do their best dialogue writing off story - the best lines, the best observations - but they haven't got enough to do with the plot to stay in. Victor Levin plot careers writing When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot. Vita Sackville-West women plot religion The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. Vittorio Alfieri punishment plot prison I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art context and I started to do installations, that was when writing of mine almost returned to fiction. Earlier I felt like I didn't have anything to write about, I could only concentrate on the page, I could only concentrate on words. Vito Acconci plot writing art Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say Vivian Gornick plot emotional stories I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot. Virginia Woolf rhythm plot writing Everyone must hoe his plot daily. Vladimir Putin hoe plot Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes. Virginia Woolf plot time Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions. W. P. Kinsella description grades plot From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands. W. H. Auden plot taken hands The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him. W. Somerset Maugham plot doe attention True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. Walter Inglis Anderson adversity plot hope I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots. Wendy Cope plot happy-life thinking You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role. Whitney M. Young plot able roles Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. Satan's strategems against prayer are three. First, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. If that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. And, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer. William Gurnall plot three prayer All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing. William Gurnall drawing plot hands «1112131415161718192021»