Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.
– Ray Bradbury
Category: Quotable
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When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.
– Robert McKee
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Think in terms of what audiences think. They go to the theatre, and they either notice that their butts are numb, or they don’t. If you’re doing your job right, they don’t.
– Joss Whedon
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Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
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Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it.
– John Green
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When you are rooting for a character to die for being so inexplicably hostile and inept, the writing has failed.
– Jamahl Epsicokhan
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There is nothing new in art except talent.
– Anton Chekhov
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Nothing will get me to shut a book faster than characters who don’t have a developed personality that informs their actions.
– Liz Tampa
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Little has happened in my life, but I have read a great deal.
– Jorge Luis Borges
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Writing during periods of despair is not a burden; it’s an escape.
– Ken Levine