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Write Quotes by David Mamet
- The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you…
- IFÂ YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITEÂ AÂ SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILLÂ BEÂ WRITING GREAT DRAMA.
- Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character…
- It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
- If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf…
- Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good…
- A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good…
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- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
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