Modern man Quote by Eugène Ionesco

“Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.”

— Javier Marías

“The writers we love often serve us through their comfort and example without their ever knowing it, and in this sense, they're as imaginary…

— Patricio Pron

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.”

— Aristotle

“In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero’s.”

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

“he explains that tragedy’s most cruel lesson is not that human beings are flawed, or that fate can be unkind, but that no one…

— Jean Hegland

“The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.”

— E. Lockhart

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that…

— Albert Camus

“Characters, for good or evil, are part of an author's family. Once we have let them out of our imaginations, they stay with us…

— Andrew Ferrell