Terry Goodkind Quotes

Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

The laws of literature, like the laws of gossip, usually demand exaggeration, decontextualization, a heightened or minimalized reality, and a lot more shape and order and impact than everyday life.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.

It's true, I did write - but it's probably not as dramatic as it sounds.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

Swear you'd rather die than use 'literally' as an intensifier.

It is only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

The speaking in perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

The point—the power to hurt—of all figures [of speech] consist in the truthfulness of their application.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

Hyperbole engaged in consciously to achieve a desired effect can be, as we have noted, a useful rhetorical tool. Indeed, its use in this manner is sometimes called "exaggeration in the service of truth." However, there's much to be said for restraint of tongue and pen, and restraint refers not only to what we say but also to how we say it. It is possible, believe it or not, to be emphatic without indulging in overstatement; it is possible to be forceful without exaggerating.

I'm prone to hyperbole.

There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.

'W1A' is heightened naturalism, whereas 'The Windsors' is like the fever dream of a 'National Enquirer' reader.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of also being over-the-top, hysterically funny.

Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.

People say the comedy is so shocking, but if you read newspapers or look around generally - I mean, obviously I'm not writing about all the lovely things that there are, which I do see as well - but there is a lot of outrageousness around, slightly covered up. And obviously, it's fun to take that a little bit further.