Temptation Quotes
No story moves forward without something to resist.
This set treats temptation as the engine of drama, from a musician's score used in a well-known film to a novelist's claim that no plot works without it, see Desire quotes.
Temptation is impossible for me to resist... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.
As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.
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A lot of times, I'll resist the temptation to visually define a movie until, one, I really understand just what the movie's about, and two, until I start talking to my cinematographer.
Conflict Quotes
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Desire Quotes
By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?
Emotion Quotes
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
Intensity Quotes
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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Other lines describe holding off on creative choices until the timing feels right. Browse Conflict quotes for more on inner struggle.
