Attention Quote by Terry McMillan

I'm really sort of cautious about being too didactic. To me there are writers that can do that, but I think they drown in…

— Adam Braver

Don't be didactic - don't write about poverty. Write about poor people. When you dramatize their lives and let life and characters be your…

— Robert McKee

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education.…

— John Lahr

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

— Peter Brook

“We know that those things to which we have an emotional connection stick with us better than those for which we have none. Dramatization…

— Brian McDonald

I try when I'm writing to leave enough "space" for people to have their own interpretation, and not to direct it toward one conclusion.…

— Charlie Kaufman

But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you…

— Julia Alvarez

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of…

— Edward Norton

When you're at drama school you spend so much time working on amazing texts and analyzing them, digging into them, and figuring out why…

— Jared Harris

I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're…

— Patrick deWitt

Some people are able to not only entertain the public in any way that they can but also in some way to throw in…

— Stan Lee

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

— Frederick Buechner