Arresting Quote by Andrew Davies Download Open image “Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.” — Andrew Davies ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arresting Books Drama Needs Novel Novels Often Opening Openings Tv Tvs
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience. — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” — International Reading Association Reading Today Online Copy Share Image
Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Most crime novels offer a curious kind of escape, to places that jag the nerves and worry the mind. Their rides of suspense give… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
When I start to write, I see my stories as a kind of movie. For instance, I ask myself, "What kind of opening do… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development. — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Rebecca Eaton has made an enormous contribution to the cultural life of America, and, more than that, she is one of the most fun… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?' — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
I had a very high opinion of my father's judgement of things and he said, "You better get a job that pays the bills… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
I had a mother who was very emotionally demanding, wanting to be the centre of attention. As they say in EastEnders, she thought it… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
The joy of writing drama is putting yourself into different people's heads. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
In Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to confess the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused,… — Micol Ostow Copy Share Image
If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean comedy)? I… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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