Quotes by Playwrights

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world. Arthur Miller
Son World Live Case More Poignant Through He Anonymous Masterpiece His Get Gets Want Wants Us
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him. Arthur Miller
Man Tools Must Shape Him His Lest
If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity. August Wilson
Life You Participate Identity Deny Want Your
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. August Wilson
Experience Black Situation Blacks Had Operate Up Where Custodian Themselves Whites Set
Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in which we live. August Wilson
You Problem Live Our Claim See Blacks Part Environment Partly Because Linguistic America Which
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom. Cao Yu
Work Waiting Writer New Like Fallen Blossom Expected Works Published Flowers
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. Christopher Fry
Death Understanding Birth Our Window Touch Wing Brushes Between Moth May
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. Colley Cibber
Death Time Thoughts Change Assume Our Outline Absent Shape Take Takes True Cease After Then
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. Cyrano de Bergerac
Alone Great Will Heights Perhaps Climb May
I'm an idiot who won the Literature Nobel Prize. Dario Fo
Idiot Nobel Nobel Prize Won Prize Literature Who
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. David Hare
Knowledge Thought Wind Sail
Children always turn to the light. David Hare
Light Always Children Turn
No one but a fool is always right. David Hare
Fool No-One Always Right
I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that. David Henry Hwang
Life Hope You Achieve Way Define Out Dream Ability American American Dream Want Turn Your Reasonable Imagine
You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work. David Henry Hwang
Work You Playwright Adventurous Without Audience Believing
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama. Edward Bond
Mind Society Drama Dramatic Our Structure Absolutely Itself Human Human Mind Saturated
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs. Edward Bond
Solution Never Affairs Ultimately Human Just Human Affairs Violence Plays
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost. Edward Bond
People Lost Radical Between Walking Pit Difference Bodies Street Humanness
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds. Elfriede Jelinek
Construction Society Solidarity Paradoxically Kinds More Makes Susceptible Substitute
Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty. Ernst Toller
Country Own Duty France Had Frenchmen His Germans Germany Done Each Defended
I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it. Eve Ensler
Time Me Writing Regret Discipline Long Long Time Took Nine About Make Always Years Waitress Taught Which Career
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. Francis Beaumont
Fruit Envy Worm Fattest Out Runs Never Like Fairest Singles Cunning Flock Deer
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. Francis Beaumont
Silence Overcome Argument More Noble Than Avoid Injury
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. Francis Beaumont
Love Death Man Fear Sounder Die Sleep
Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme. Francis Beaumont
Love Dog Will Make Howl Oh Rhyme
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you. Francoise Sagan
You Men Sense Unless Dress No Sense Inspires Take Makes Off
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