Conflict Quote by James Frey Download Open image “The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.” — James Frey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conflict Dramatic Dramatic writing Fiction writers Fiction writing Inspirational War Writing
Conflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance. — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
Writing about conflict has provided these dramatic opportunities to talk about really substantial moments in a person's life. I'm not writing about superheroes; I'm… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama. — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
“It is a touching story, and it is written more to convince than to tell. I am not convinced.” — James Frey Copy Share Image
But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a familiar place. A place I don’t talk about or acknowledge exists. A place where there is only me. A place that I hate. I am alone. Alone here and alone in the world. Alone in my heart and… — James Frey Copy Share
He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow. — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Addiction is a decision. An individual wants something, whatever that something is, and makes a desicion to get it. Once they have it, they make a decision to take it. If they take it too often, that process of decision making gets out of control, and if it gets far out of control, it becomes an addiction. At that point… — James Frey Copy Share
“I start to cry. Tears begin running down my face and quiet sobs escape me. I don't know what I'm doing and I don't… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given. — James Frey Copy Share Image
We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial… — James Frey Copy Share Image
For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again. — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Thirty-six. If you want to shrink something, you must first expand it. If you want to get rid of something, you must allow it… — James Frey Copy Share Image
And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share
There is a conflict in the Middle East between two entities, and they're both right, each in their own way. — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict. — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without… — Syd Field Copy Share Image
The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar ethnic cuisine; your diaspora , from what I understand, is mostly in Southern California, three time zones removed from the national media in New York; and you don't have a recognizable, long-simmering conflict like the one… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share
I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any… — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades of conflict. The blue helmets and their civilian colleagues work together to organize elections, enact police and judicial reform, promote and protect human rights, conduct mine-clearance, advance gender equality, achieve the voluntary disarmament of former… — Kofi Annan Copy Share
