Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caroline B. Cooney

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me

William Shakespeare

Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

Bryan Fuller

Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.

Billy Wilder

The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.

Connie Willis

I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).

Barry Hannah

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

Ben Stiller

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

Edgar Bergen

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.

Ayn Rand

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

Anish Kapoor

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

Andrea Arnold

I don't read reviews.

Patricia Arquette

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

Oscar Levant

I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.

Chris Hardwick

I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I get terrible reviews everywhere I go.

S. Hughes

I don't read reviews myself. I have someone who is on my side read them, then tell me about them.

Mark Ruffalo

I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews.

Michael Chabon

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.

Maria Semple

My day is not that fun-filled or that filled usually with complications.

Rob Lowe

Every relationship has its complications.