Quotes About Development

I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.

I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters.

Use plot to buttress a story.

I'm very good at plot.

I'm attracted to people who work their little plot of land and cultivate it and cultivate it.

When it comes to a character, I make sure that it adds to the plot.

You're always trying to learn from the past to plot a course in the future that will be better. You're always trying to learn.

Character, story and plot are affected by any action sequence so you have to really design them accordingly.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no.

Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.

When the Lakers sent me down to the D-League, I didn't view it as a demotion. I accepted it as a challenge. Plus, it meant playing more minutes, which meant growth.

When you don't have the deepest pockets, you better have the best scouting and development.

I look for ways to try to build the sport, ways to put more fans in the seats and more money in our pockets.

Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are 12, you might when you are 13.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.