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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.

— Jennifer McMahon

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

— Jim Rash

Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.

— Sarah Hall

I've done a bit of teaching, but I gave it up - I felt uneasy teaching illustration to people who hadn't yet learned to draw.

— Michael Foreman

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

— John Berger

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

— Temple Grandin

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

— Robert Fitzgerald

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

— William Landay

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.

— Luke Treadaway

✗Opposing Perspectives

I feel like I know how to write plot.

— Mike White