Essentials Quote by Stefan Kanfer

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

Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.

— Michiko Kakutani

“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 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 define melodrama as truth uninhibited. It's the kind of truth we dream about. Rather than melodrama being exaggerated, it's actually uninhibited. And it's…

— Guy Maddin

“Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful…

— Jonathan Shay

“There are people who feel deeply but are somehow beaten down. Their buffoonery is something like a spiteful irony against those to whom they…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I extract significance from melodrama, a significance which it does not in fact contain; but occasionally, from out of this matter, there escapes a…

— Tom Stoppard

“There's a lot of beauty to be found in sadness and melancholia. One of the things that you find time and time again -…

— Steven Wilson

“I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.”

— David Foster Wallace

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

— Aristotle

“I know now that a writer cannot afford to give in to feelings of rage, disgust, or contempt. Did you answer someone in a…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn