Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader’s desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not much at a time, as your story goes on. That’s called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax.
Colin Greenland
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Good storytelling never gives you four; it gives you two plus two….Don’t give the audience the answer; give the audience the pieces and compel them to conclude the answer. Audiences have an unconscious desire to work for their entertainment. They are rewarded with a sense of thrill and delight when the find the answer themselves.
Bob Peterson
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I never enter a scene until the last possible moment…and as soon as it’s done I get the hell out of there.
William Goldman
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Story, as such, can only have one merit: that of making the audience want to know what happens next. And conversely, it can only have one fault: that of making the audience not want to know what happens next.
E.M Forster
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I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
Montesquieu
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A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.
Truman Capote
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, and two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
William Faulkner
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero, but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G.K. Chesterton
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