Quotes by Playwrights

Things always happen in series. Arthur Adamov

Always Happen Series Things

That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies. Arthur Laurents

Me Better Enough Left Fantasies

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match. Arthur Miller

Love Too Our Neuroses Match Just Her

Without alienation, there can be no politics. Arthur Miller

Politics Alienation Without

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for! Arthur Miller

People Suicide Maggie Two Two People

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. Arthur Miller

Money Everybody Nobody Likes Him Lends

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you. Arthur Miller

Day You One Day Find Something Until Specialize

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. Arthur Miller

You Fight Way Out Never Fair Boy Jungle Get Stranger

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. Arthur Miller

You Country Live Playwright Way Stay Occupied Lives

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. Arthur Miller

Myself Great Problem Think Statement Possible Rather Most Great Thing Answer Accurate Theater Formulation Much Now Thing

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. Arthur Miller

Life Game Find Minor Diverse Most Pastime Author Literary Certainly

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. Arthur Miller

You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've written is that of a woman. My men are, well, not quite worthless, but they are certainly weak, and that reflects the reality I grew up with and what I think has in a sense shaped me. Athol Fugard

Positive Me You Woman Reality Strong Men Sense Think Weak Worthless See Voice Shaped Written Well Up Affirmative Reflects Any Quite Grew Certainly Plays

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul. Athol Fugard

I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential. Athol Fugard

Life Me Witness Single Own Think Dramatic See Something My Own Potential Outside Between Read Does Hear Represent Newspaper Internal Fascinates Even Event Street External Plays Coincidence

Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love. Athol Fugard

The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage. Athol Fugard

In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life. Athol Fugard

Life Success You Problems South Africa Month Never New Nonsense South Lot York New York Africa Happen Flavor Your Presented Presents