David Corbett
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
Twitter
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Influences
Robert Stone, Pete Dexter, Richard Price, Kate Atkinson, Paulette Jile
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Member Since
February 2010
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/davidcorbett
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The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
10 editions
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2013
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The Mercy of the Night
10 editions
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2015
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The Devil's Redhead
19 editions
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2002
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Do They Know I'm Running?
11 editions
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2010
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Blood of Paradise
19 editions
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2007
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The Devil Prayed and Darkness Fell: A Novella
4 editions
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2015
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Done For A Dime
19 editions
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2003
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The Compass of Character: Creating Complex Motivation for Compelling Characters in Fiction, Film, and TV
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The Truth Against the World
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The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday
6 editions
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2018
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David’s Recent Updates
David Corbett
is now friends with
Aimee
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“Writers possess only four tools: research, experience, empathy, and imagination. Fortunately, whole worlds can be built from them.”
― The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
― The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
“To paraphrase one of my favorite math professors: The difference between great artists, and artists who are not so great, is that great artists think deeply about simple things.”
― The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
― The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
“The problem lies not with genre but with formula, which consists of seeing genre conventions as restrictions rather than mere guidelines, ends in themselves rather than possibilities.”
― The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
― The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
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“As a rule those who were least remarkable for intelligence showed the greater powers of survival. Such people recognized their own deficiencies and the superior intelligence of their opponnents; fearing that they might lose a debate or find themselves out-manoeuvred in intrigue by their quick-witted enemies, they boldly launched straight into action; while their opponents, overconfident in the belief that they would see what was happening in advance, and not thinking it necessary to seize by force what they could secure by policy, were the more easily destroyed because they were off their guard. 84 Certainly it was in Corcyra that”
― The History of the Peloponnesian War
― The History of the Peloponnesian War
“That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.”
― The Middleman
― The Middleman

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