Quotes About Deus Ex Machina

#1. Readers tend to tolerate such "accidents" ... when they get the characters into trouble but they're less accepting when the author uses them to rescue people. The "deus ex machina" ... in one stroke it renders meaningless all the efforts of the cast.

Thomas McCormack

#2. I need some kind of ... like ... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#3. A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Marisha Pessl

#4. Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives ... Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.

Robert McKee

#5. Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.

Mike Mehalek

#6. Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means.

Florence King

#7. It was a deus-ex-machina world!

John Irving

#8. This particular blunder is known as deus ex machina, which is French for Are you fucking kidding me?

Howard Mittelmark

#9. Though she were another person, a deus ex machina

Danielle Steel

#10. But think about it -what if there were a deus ex machina in real life? Everything would be so easy! If you felt stuck or trapped, some god would swing down from up there and solve all your problems. What could be easier than that?

Haruki Murakami

#11. I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#12. Was I happier there in my loneliness

Henri Cole

#13. I am not a fan of the magical quick fix in any fiction, including fantasy, scifi and comic books. Unless Dr. Who is involved, and then only because we get to use the phrase 'Timey-wimey wibbliness' which, I'm sure you'll agree, there are not enough occasions to drop into ordinary adult conversation.

Chris Dee

#14. It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

Christopher Moore

#15. Let us end this farce, observer! Give me your final, most beloved act of "will"... The one you most wish to believe was your own idea!
"My own... will... I... I believe that this love for Yukiteru-kun... is real!

Sakae Esuno

#16. I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Karl Lagerfeld

#17. Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Washington Irving

#18. God did not separate humanity from the environment in which they were created

Sunday Adelaja

#19. I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.

Warren Ellis

#20. By now the two men were tied securely to their chairs. Powerscourt found he could just about move his arms. If there was a deus out there somewhere, he said to himself, he wished he would hurry up and get out of his machina.

David Dickinson