Loving somebody is the beginning of everything..

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion..

A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing..

I was the Colleen McCullough of 1971..

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. Ot….

Your anger is a gift..

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules..

I hit every day. I love to hit..

Without someone telling you what you are doing is wrong, you can't say what you are doing is right..

We like to make sure there is a plot at the center of it and that you care about the people but to poke fun of little things, like the toast restaura….

The writer asks himself, 'Can I think of a plot that will parallel this? Can I take this work of literature as an example of something I might produc….

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue….

In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature..

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome..

Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization i….

Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect..

Everybody is entertained to death..

I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road..

You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing..

There is so much more to understand..