Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic…

“Pop culture writing is about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. Literature is about extraordinary people in ordinary circumstances.”

— Stephen King

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the…

— Philip Levine

I kind of came from the Townes Van Zandt school of throwing yourself off a cliff and then that's what you write about, and…

— John Fullbright

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

— James Frey

“My best advice about writer’s block is: the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the GOAL of…

— Dan Harmon

I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any…

— Danny Trejo

“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar…

— Gary Shteyngart

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

— Anonymous

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without…

— Syd Field

Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict.

— Gerald Horne

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

— Brian Eno

Conflict isn't negative, it just is.

— Thomas Crum

There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they're both right, each in their own way.

— Reuven Rivlin

The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson