Verbalize Quotes

“All human creativity plays with patterns to create an emotional experience in its audience. We look for patterns and ascribe meaning because that is what we are wired to do. The inestimable Lisa Cron has written an entire book called Wired for Story that examines the direct link between brains and books, synapse and story—I cannot recommend it strenuously enough.”
― Damon Suede, Verbalize: bring stories to life & life to stories

“In the words of acting teacher Sanford Meisner, “That which hinders your task is your task.”
― Damon Suede, Verbalize: bring stories to life & life to stories

“A story only succeeds to the extent that internal conflict becomes external action and external conflict creates internal action”
― Damon Suede, Verbalize: bring stories to life & life to stories

“paradox of human evolution in a nutshell: risk-takers who need certainty.”
― Damon Suede, Verbalize: bring stories to life & life to stories

“I show two drawings, of eyes open and then eyes closed, you may think, “She fell asleep.” If I reverse the order, you could say, “She woke up.” The drawings didn’t change, but the context did. Most action in a comic page takes place in its gutters, between the panels. Given a context and a set of criteria, our minds fill in the gaps. Film uses similar gaps, using individual frames to trick our minds into seeing the illusion of movement by splicing a series of stills together or cutting from scene to scene to get to the action. Our imaginations fill in the missing bits.”
― Damon Suede, Verbalize: bring stories to life & life to stories

“Koster argues that all entertainment identifies and explores patterns to attract and reward attention.”
― Damon Suede, Verbalize: bring stories to life & life to stories

“this sequence is most likely the root of the Rule of Threes in rhetoric and narratives. Feel that fact.”
― Damon Suede, Verbalize: bring stories to life & life to stories

“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.” Alfred North Whitehead30”
― Damon Suede, Verbalize: bring stories to life & life to stories

“Characters are not people or things, they are forces…arcs of transformation caused by high-stakes choices.”
― Damon Suede, Verbalize: bring stories to life & life to stories

“Characters reflect psychology as a matter of coherence, but they cannot have psychology because they do not have lives.”
― Damon Suede, Verbalize: bring stories to life & life to stories