Book Quote by Guy Maddin

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they…

— Stanley Tucci

Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the…

— James Gray

I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is…

— Nicholas Sparks

I love Lars von Trier. 'Dogville' is my favourite movie of the last 20 years. 'Nymphomaniac' and 'Melancholia' aren't quite as exciting as 'The…

— Ari Aster

If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about literature. I…

— Ben Gibbard

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“I've read seventeen novels and bushels of poetry-- really necessary novels like Vanity Fair and Richard Feverel and Alice in Wonderland. Also Emerson's Essays…

— Jean Webster

The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read…

— Ryan North

The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments…

— Milan Kundera

I loved writing Dumbledore and he is the epitome of goodness.

— J. K. Rowling

“In serious Victorian fiction, as in Shakespearian tragedy, melodrama normally functions as metaphor. The author finds a vivid equivalent for a reality too elaborate…

— Ian Gregor

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are…

— Martin McDonagh