Any Quote by Nicholas Jarecki

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

— Clint Eastwood

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

In a drama, you generally have to be very faithful to the script and the storyline, and it all has to fit together, and…

— Sophie Rundle

I don't think anybody deals well with tragedy or grief, but maybe my characters are particularly bad at it. Which is why I love…

— Dan Chaon

“The serious writer has always taken the flaw in human nature for his starting point, usually the flaw in an otherwise admirable character. Drama…

— Flannery O'Connor

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of…

— Eckhart Tolle

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'

— Carlton Cuse

The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.

— Greg Kinnear

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of…

— Leigh Hunt

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

— Nic Pizzolatto

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half,…

— George Saunders

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

— Jane Smiley