A Quote by Eudora Welty

Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

Eudora Welty

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Eudora Welty
American - Novelist
April 13, 1909 - July 23, 2001

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters.

Joe Hill

You can't be both a writer and a politician, at least not a good writer. A writer must always tell the truth as he sees it. And the politician must never give the game away.

Gore Vidal

All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots.

Margaret Weis

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

Alan Lightman

All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.

Don DeLillo

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

Kerry Greenwood

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

Michael Connelly

I don't like to work with directors who have taken an adoption from another script writer, because it's too much: one of them writes it and then has to explain it to the other, or maybe the director sees it in a way the writer doesn't want it.

Udo Kier

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

Karin Fossum

[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.

Charles R. Jackson

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.

Melissa Rosenberg

To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you are a sinking man. A writer's love for another writer is never quite free of malice. He may enjoy discussing your failures even more than you do. He probably sees you as tragic, like his characters - or unworthy of tragedy, which is worse.

Anatole Broyard

There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.

Belle Boyd

That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

Truman Capote

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

James Baldwin

The funny thing is, though I write mysteries, it is the one genre in adult fiction I never read. I read Nancy Drew, of course, when I was a kid, but I think the real appeal is as a writer because I'm drawn to puzzly, complicated plots.

Elise Broach

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