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I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.
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.
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me.
Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
