War Quote by John Yorke Download Open image ““All good exposition is disguised by making it dramatic – by injecting conflict.”” — John Yorke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare War
“There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“This means the literary effect is not the main concern here; the author is more concerned with plot. And that plot must be relatively… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
“Crafty writers...don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build the story… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There's supposed to be drama. The dull stories never make it into the books.” — Ellery Adams Copy Share Image
The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“In the movie of your entire life, do you want drama and conflict or a straight shot to the top, unencumbered?” — James Franco Copy Share Image
“The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause.” — John Capecci and Timothy Cage Copy Share Image
“There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.” — Alan Watt Copy Share Image
“real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“Conflict isn’t merely physical, Old Wusong. Every interaction is a battle. An exchange of words for instance.” — Adam Burch Copy Share Image
“Directness often disguised as much as it revealed, and was a marvelous defense.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“The conflict between how we wish to be perceived and what we really feel is at the root of all character.” — John Yorke Copy Share Image
“People construct a public face in order to deal with the conflicts that rage inside them.” — John Yorke Copy Share Image
“Great characters are consciously or subconsciously at war with themselves.” — John Yorke Copy Share Image
“A character’s want is a superficial conscious desire for the thing they think they need in order to present themselves to the world, a” — John Yorke Copy Share Image
“Silence of the Lambs screenwriter Ted Tally put the art of writing dialogue succinctly: ‘What’s important is not the emotion they’re playing but the… — John Yorke Copy Share Image
“if you disguise exposition with ‘emotional overlay’, it’s rendered undetectable.” — John Yorke Copy Share Image
“A character’s façade, then, is an outer manifestation of an inner conflict.” — John Yorke Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“People came to our house from far and wide. Party and military bigwigs, some guy known as the “combat commander,” the village headman, and… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a batter. Love is a war. Love is… — Anonymous 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 world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx,… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
