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Quote by Brian Koppelman

“Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.”

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Brian Koppelman, born in 1966, is an accomplished filmmaker renowned for his unique perspective and profound storytelling skills. His works often delve into complex interpersonal relationships and social issues, winning the hearts of audiences worldwide. more

“Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it can be misguided advice. Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose”

Writing Two Shows Fiction Creative Cutting Advice Scene Prose Nonfiction Components Misguided Summary Creative Nonfiction

Book:Showing & Telling: Learn How to Show & When to Tell for Powerful & Balanced Writing

Source: Showing & Telling: Learn How to Show & When to Tell for Powerful & Balanced Writing

“A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.”

Whole Trauma Whole Life Remembered

Book:Unchained Memories: True Stories of Traumatic Memories Lost and Found

Source: Unchained Memories: True Stories of Traumatic Memories Lost and Found

“The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians - and Christian conservatives most significantly -unwittingly embrace some of the most corrosive aspects of the cultural disintegration they decry. By nurturing its resentments, sustaining them through a discourse of negation toward outsiders, and in cases, pursuing their will to power, they become functional Nietzscheans, participating in the very cultural breakdown they so ardently strive resist.”

“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the authority to insist upon it; we want more community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot possibly have on the terms that we want it.”

Quote by Brian Koppelman

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