Quotes by Playwrights

Ultimately, theatre is about creating a sense of wonder, and I think wonder is achieved not by a kind of wide-eyed silliness but by being available to that which is most unknown, inside the material and inside yourself. George C. Wolfe

Theatre Yourself Sense Think Unknown Kind Inside Silliness About Most Material Ultimately Wonder Achieved Being Which Available Creating

Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they lean in, when they push back, when they breathe, when they surrender. George C. Wolfe

Journey You Surrender Control Every Back Push Lean Audience Go Crafting Want Rhythmic Breathe Play

1985 - That was my time in New York, and I have such poetic, fond memories. George C. Wolfe

Time Memories Fond Fond Memories My Time Poetic New York New York

To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country. George C. Wolfe

Me First Country Musical Real Texture American Boat Show

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. Graham Greene

Sad Wisdom Age Sense Morality Withered Curiosity

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. Graham Greene

Good Man World Good Man Monstrous Something Only He Almost Himself Conventional Regarded Ordinary Ordinary Man

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. Graham Greene

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. Graham Greene

Happiness Human Being No-One Another Understand Arrange Human Being Really

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. Graham Greene

Truth Try Petty Distance More More And More Write Journalists Perhaps Trying Fiction Reason Novelists Keep Why

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. Graham Greene

Word Bad Journalism Come Just Mean Media

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. Graham Greene

Life Trust Impossible Worst Oneself Through Without Go Imprisoned Cell

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore. Graham Greene

World Heroes Make Any Anymore

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are. Graham Greene

Life You More Thrillers Like Than

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. Graham Greene

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. Graham Greene

Loyalty Sense He Feel Felt Where Unhappiness Really Belong

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. Graham Greene

Life Death Us Resigned

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida. Hanif Kureishi

People Philosophical Like Freud Psychology Interested Nietzsche

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do? Hanif Kureishi

Work Me Language Understanding Philosophical Seemed Come Terms Does How Real Were Where Breakthroughs Century

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. Hanif Kureishi

Crazy Writing About Obsessive Because Disciplined Always Person