Dramatic Writing Quotes:

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

- James Frey

topic: Writing, Conflict, Dramatic, Dramatic Writing, Fiction Writers

If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish between honest emotional reactions and sentimental approaches to life, you will never write a competent short story.

- Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

topic: Writing, Character, Emotional, Writing By Writers, Writing Short Stories

I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.

- Lorraine Hansberry

topic: Believe, Writing, Thinking, Dramatic Writing, Universality

In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He's changed-psychologically, maybe even physically.

- Robert Towne

topic: Writing, Character, Essence, Character Change, Dramatic Writing

As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama. When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters might be a little funnier, but you're just trying to be honest.

- Jonah Hill

source: Source: film.avclub.com

topic: Drama, Writing, Character, Dramatic Writing

New dramatic writing has banished conversational dialogue from the stage as a relic of dramaturgy based on conflict and exchange: any story, intrigue or plot that is too neatly tied up is suspect.

- Patrice Pavis

source: Patrice Pavis (2003). “Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture”, p.57, Routledge

topic: Writing, Plot, Stories, Tied Up, Dramatic Writing

I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always been about, which is talent, not the pretext for its exhibition.

- William Monahan

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Writing, Exhibitions, Aversion, Dramatic Writing