Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clifton Fadiman

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

Anne Carson

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

James Laughlin

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

James Laughlin

[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.

Gertrude Stein

I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.

Leslie Fiedler

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

Caroline B. Cooney

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

Bryan Fuller

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

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

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.

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).

Walter Kirn

A loving mother-son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me - when I wasn't saying it to her.

Vicki Lawrence

Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.