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• Grief doesn’t have a plot. It isn’t smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

  Ann Hood

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  Tags in Plot, Grief

• First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.

  Robert Harris

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• I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It’s very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.

  Vikas Swarup

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• My sister and brother are both writers as well. We are constantly discussing story and plot lines. And I love to discuss story ideas with my husband.

  Ruta Sepetys

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• I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I’m constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.

  Maria Semple

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• In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

  Maria Semple

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• Normally you read a screenplay – and I read a lot of them – and the characters don’t feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

  Joseph Gordon Levitt

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

  Edgar Bergen

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• Writing is truly a creative art – putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

  William Shatner

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• God, I’d love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.

  Bob Balaban

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