"What I do not want to write is…" — Joan D. Vinge

More Didactic Quotes

This quote is filed under Didactic Quotes, one of 24 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to… — David Attenborough
• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood,… — D. H. Lawrence
• It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children.… — Tim Wynne-Jones
• If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history… — Paul Copan
• The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall… — Otto Rank
• I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. — John Shirley
• I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They… — Stanley Kubrick
• We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs… — Erik Satie
• A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold. — Edmund Morgan
• This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one… — Gaston Bachelard
• I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do… — Peter Greenaway
• I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well… — George Bernard Shaw

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