Dramatization Quotes

“No audience likes a writer's opinion thrust down their gullet as simply a tract. It has to be dramatized and made acceptably palatable within a dramatic form.”
― Rod Serling

“Naturally, people — especially in America — live in the moment and, given the “crisis” orientation of cable news, think that [the 2000s are] the worst period the country has ever gone through. Not really.”
― Ivan Eland

“Dramatization is not exaggeration.”
― Roger Stone, Stone's Rules: How to Win at Politics, Business, and Style

“Even the most apparently autobiographical poem cannot help but deploy a persona that, while gesturing
towards a flesh-and-bones speaker, remains, paradoxically, no more than a dramatised representation. The illusion of the presence of the poet within a poem is made possible by that poem’s conjuring of the illusion of the present moment. Poems may utilise language in such ways as to gesture towards an immediacy that, in turn, gives rise to the seeming presence of a very real speaker.”
― Ben Wilkinson, Don Paterson