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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
The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict. -- James Frey
As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama. -- Jonah Hill
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
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
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
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. -- Robert Morgan
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. -- Nicholas Sparks
I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic. -- Shelley Berman
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. -- Lillian Hellman
I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important. -- Tony Goldwyn
People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life. -- Pat Benatar
All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't. -- Suzanne Collins
I have a fondness for writing about precocious, troubled teenagers, who are alienating, but kind of endearing. It's from remembering so clearly that time in my own life. I experienced myself as more dramatically troubled than I was, but I just remember how it felt. -- Ann Hood
The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself. -- Linda Lavin
Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation. -- Brian Greene
What I like writing about are people's relationships, not necessarily great big dramatic things but the smaller things in life and how they affect characters and challenge and change the people that they are. I do like a happy ending, so my books have to have a happy ending. -- Penny Jordan
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. -- John Dryden

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