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
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 apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic. — Philip Schaff 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
What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect. — Aleksandar Hemon 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
I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's… — Shirin Neshat 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold. — Edmund Morgan 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
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
