Affliction Quote by David Mamet

“Character isn’t something that magically appears simply by virtue of having a birthday and a describable physical identity; it is something that is built…

— Billy Marshall-Stoneking

“The dramatic arises out of the margin of opaqueness between a writer and his personages, out of the potential for the unexpected. In the…

— George Steiner

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself,…

— Anonymous

If you know exactly what your character knows, its a drama.

— Timur Bekmambetov

“Drama belongs in fiction.”

— Brian Bartlett

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

— Aristotle

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

— Timur Bekmambetov

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of…

— Leigh Hunt

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

— Sidney Lumet

“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people…

— Anne Lamott

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

— Anonymous

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

— Peter Brook