Talk About Exposition Quotes & Sayings

The famous axiom "Show, don't tell" is the key. Never force words into a character's mouth to tell the audience about world, history, or person. Rather, show us honest, natural scenes in which human beings talk and behave in honest, natural ways...yet at the same time indirectly pass along the necessary facts. In other words, dramatize exposition. Dramatized exposition serves two ends: Its primary purpose is to further the immediate conflict. Its secondary purpose is to convey information. The anxious novice reverses that order, putting expositional duty ahead of dramatic necessity. — Robert McKee

a battle is never about who's right. It's mostly about who's left! — Ashwin Sanghi

You're not endangering my wife and son, you're not bringing trouble down on us, if you're going the same way as your useless parents, I — J.K. Rowling

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect. — Jerry Saltz

THE POLICEMAN: I'm a policeman. I'm paid by those in charge to combat dissatisfaction. — Bertolt Brecht

By the moonlight he watched his wife for the last time. His hand sought the adjacent flesh and sorrow paralleled desire in the immense complexity of love. — Carson McCullers

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to prove new theorems, to add to mathematics, and not to talk about what he or other mathematicians have done. Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians have usually similar feelings: there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. — G.H. Hardy

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; — Robert Louis Stevenson

What if our children are all super-bright and I can't understand what they're saying and they look down on me because I haven't got a PhD? — Sophie Kinsella

Evolution is scary. However, the thought of going extinct because you refused to change should be more terrifying — Mark Anthony Peterson

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety. — Andrew Coyle Bradley

People love me or hate me and all I think about is the people that I know and suffer with different causes and carry on my charity work and that's what keeps me alive really. — Heather Mills

I want you to tell me how this normally works. Do we hunt down the Dark Ones? Do we have a scheduled battle with the Big Bad Dark One? Do I need to run up and hit him in the face with a glove and declare a duel? What? — Nichole Chase

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional. — Billy Joe Saunders