Didactic Quote by Brit Marling

“Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.” quote by Brit Marling — Download Open image

“Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.”

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If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . . a work shouldn't be dismissed simply because of the strong convictions of the writer. Should we discount the facticity or reliability of the accounts of Nazi concentration camp survivors simply because they passionately recount their story?

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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…

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

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

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

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

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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…

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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 feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by…

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