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I’m more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor! Gail Carson Levine
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I’m more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor! Gail Carson Levine
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn’t play that way. It’s about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it. Gael Garcia Bernal
The past record of man is burdened with accounts of assasinations, secret combines, palace plots and betrayals in war. But in spite of this clear record, an amazing number of people have begun to scoff at the possibility of conspiracy at work today. They dismiss such an idea merely a conspiratorial point of view. G. … Read more
You can’t have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them. Evangeline Lilly
God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves. Eugene H. Peterson
When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God’s. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves. Eugene H. Peterson
Plots are … what the writer sees with. Eudora Welty
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about–these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived … Read more
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else … Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who’s here? Who’s coming? Eudora Welty
Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. Etgar Keret