Character Quote by Aristotle

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'

— Carlton Cuse

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of…

— Horace Walpole

The next time I write a play - in order to get audience trust for a particular sort of tragic line, I'll try to…

— Colm Toibin

If Shakespeare's great plays are variants of stories, even novels, you can see how each character is telling his story from his perspective; each…

— Joyce Carol Oates

...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift the people's…

— Ryukishi07

“Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible.”

— Joseph Campbell

Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his…

— Nate Silver

Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another…

— Tracy Letts

“There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers…

— Arthur Miller

The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.

— Susan Sontag

Tragedy is a literary concept.

— David Hockney