Words matter. These are the best Snappy Quotes from famous people such as Aaron Sorkin, Katherine Dunn, Sayed Kashua, Clive Cussler, Nicole Holofcener, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
‘The Iliad’ includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.
‘Arab Labor’ was light, snappy. We got emotional over things, but from a safe place, from the terrace.
I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action.
If you keep the situations real, the characters’ behavior will be real and honest, too. If they’re suddenly robbing a bank and exchanging snappy dialogue, well, I wouldn’t even know how to write that.
In its brief 14-episode run, ‘Firefly’ gave viewers as much chance of witnessing a horseback chase or train robbery as a laser gun and spacefight in any given episode. Snappy one-liners and silly hats were a constant, of course.
In Chinese culture, it wouldn’t occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it’s the parents who need to be taught a life lesson – by their children.
A lot of times, female characters – particularly the villains – come off as very one-dimensional. They get the short shrift in that they’re only given the snappy comeback, or they’re relegated to a very stereotypical role. I want to know what’s driving them – that’s what’s really interesting.
Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she’s a little more edgy and snappy.
Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I’ve never been injured before and this year it feels like I’ve hardly played.
The pressure from within used to have an impact on my behaviour. If games had gone badly, I would take things home with me. I’d be snappy at my kids and felt constantly wound up.
When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
Sam Snead had perhaps the most stylish solution to the balding golfer: A snappy fedora that became his signature style, so much so that many never knew he was tonsorially bereft.
I get snappy if I don’t eat.
I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don’t think I dumb down my Y.A. It’s just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it’s always third person from the main character’s perspective.
Radio interviews are really snappy and I’m just bad at that. I just close down.
Being out of a team changes you as a person. You don’t realise it but, away from the game, you can be snappy with your family or friends if you’re not playing. It hurts not to be involved, but I guess you have to accept it. It’s part and parcel of being at a big club.
