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Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman
English Playwright
Born: Jul 18, 1865
Died: Feb 20, 1959
Books Great Life Me Think World
Related authors: Christopher Fry Edward Bond Francis Beaumont Jack Thorne John Osborne John Webster Noel Coward Peter Shaffer
I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage. Laurence Housman
Myself Good Man Too Late Thought Become Stage Too Late Dramatist Results Write Never Had Economically Came Wordy Really Technical Letters
I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow. Laurence Housman
God Rest Nation Think One Nation Would Follow About Only Could Still Get Human Race Human Race Even Right
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews. Laurence Housman
Me Appreciation Experience Own Immediate Further Pleasure Find My Own More Gives Towards Feet Like Most Also Reader Greater Audiences Hear Stimulus Lecturer Reviews Than Them Who Even Activity Plays
I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily. Laurence Housman
Book Writing Thought Long First Easily Could Writer Knew Always Been Quickly Form Letters
If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy. Laurence Housman
You World Stage Books Way Would Would-Be All The World Entire Only Write Romantic Loved Clumsy Should Letters
It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment. Laurence Housman
Best Home Generation Think Way Best Way My Generation Discovered Subject Then Bringing Medieval Treatment
My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine. Laurence Housman
Best Happy Better Will Others Mine Francis Remain Written Advantage Subject Hit Them Might Moment Series Chance Plays
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together. Laurence Housman
Together Better Faster Books Mine Say Brother Poems Could He Put Wrote Read Than Used Two
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. Laurence Housman
Art Me Failure Disappointment Writing Training First Direction More Drove Alternative Caused Years Five Get Six Which Right Right Direction Set
That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front. Laurence Housman
War Me Made Luck Would Soon Sure Got Am Been Front Quite Then Should Conscientious
The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale. Laurence Housman
Politics Great Me Satire Scale High Had Also Material Up Begun Modern Form Little Social Appeal Lives Things

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