The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic. — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold. — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist. — Lucinda Childs Copy Share Image
What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Nothing I do is didactic. I just want to hold up a mirror and say, 'This is who we are.' — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information. — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. — John Shirley Copy Share Image
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
I am not interested in making didactic polemical statements. That is not the way I want to make films. There is a… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t… — Tim Wynne-Jones Copy Share Image
As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
I'm really sort of cautious about being too didactic. To me there are writers that can do that, but I think they… — Adam Braver Copy Share Image
If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda.… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message.… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of… — Damian Pettigrew Copy Share Image
When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Didactic instruction is teaching by telling, i.e. teacher presentation. In didactic instruction, the teacher directly tells the student what to believe and… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
I don't like to talk about messages so much with films simply because it's a little more didactic. The reason I'm a… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The best didactic for the elimination of the Ego it is found in the everyday life intensively lived. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours.… — Erik Satie Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
I didn't want the film to be didactic, and this is tough because if you look at the list of issues, you… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
