What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . .…

— Paul Copan

I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire…

— Damian Pettigrew

Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be…

— Charles Baudelaire

I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they…

— Stanley Kubrick

“Didactic instruction is teaching by telling, i.e. teacher presentation. In didactic instruction, the teacher directly tells the student what to believe and think about…

— Terry Marselle

The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as…

— D. H. Lawrence

It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to…

— Tim Wynne-Jones

I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's right to…

— Shirin Neshat

When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would weave its…

— Eve Ensler

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to…

— Hannah Gadsby

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when…

— Voltaire

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

— Philip Schaff

Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your…

— Robert McKee

The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of the song…

— Peter Yarrow