Quotes by Playwrights

You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody like Daniel Day-Lewis, who transforms himself eerily? Well, I aim to be the Daniel Day-Lewis kind of writer. I don't have a house style. Emma Donoghue

I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.' Emma Donoghue

Work Me Better Remember Please Give More Look Contemporary Period Said Historical Selling Than Where Us Much Your Publisher

I would say I have sort of a natural gift for character, and following one person's point of view at a time, and dialogue, but I'm not naturally good at strong plot. Emma Donoghue

Time Good Character Natural Gift Strong Say Plot Would Following Point Point Of View Sort Dialogue Person View Naturally

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent. Emma Donoghue

Parent Ideal Knows How Any

I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the way. Emma Donoghue

Life Writing Way Put House Off Gets Order Really Who

I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework. Emma Donoghue

Me Hate Homework Feel Like Make Doing Child

I read three books a week. Emma Donoghue

Three Books Week Read

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones. Emma Donoghue

Love Broad Characters Cast Contain Queer Including Novels

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer. Emma Donoghue

Politics You Group Writer Identity Go Any Want Speaking

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity. Ernst Toller

I saw the dead without really seeing them. Ernst Toller

Saw Seeing Dead Without Them Really

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat. Ernst Toller

Will Revolution Spirit Beat Continue Hearts Die While Workers

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. Ernst Toller

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth. Ernst Toller

Truth Slogans Could Hear Which Us

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people. Ernst Toller

People Revolution Pulsating Like Heartbeat Vessel Working Working People Filled Millions

Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks like other cells and the body invites it in. Eve Ensler

Cancer Other Some Divide Point Invites Like Looks Becomes Begin Cell Cells Essentially Then Us Body Initially Lives

If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you'll be feeling what they're feeling. If you're separated, it's not a hard thing to do at all. Eve Ensler

You Human Being Feeling Own Destroying Hurting Another Because Very Human Being Screwing Separated Your Hard Internal Connected Hard Thing Thing

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection. Eve Ensler

Change Hunger Security Connection