Quotes by Playwrights - Page 114

Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace?
Sarah Ruhl
It seems to happen sudden—a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save himself—no energy wasted... he slips and slides— he travels with the punch. . . . Oh, sure, I like the way you're shaping up.
Clifford Odets
Then this must be my answer: We know that the attributes of God are infinite and it has always seemed strange to me that men have never given Him credit for common sense. It is hard to believe that He would have created so beautiful a world if He had not decided men to enjoy it. Would He have given the stars their glory, the birds their sweet song, and the flowers, their fragrance if He had not wished us to delight in them? I shave sinned before men and men have condemned me. God made me a man with passions of a man, and did He give them to me only that I should suppress them? He gave me my adventurous spirit and my love of life. I have a humble hope that when I am face to face with my Maker He will condone my imperfections and I shall find mercy in His sight.
W Somerset Maugham
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
William Shakespeare
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,Yet Grace must still look so.
William Shakespeare
Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.
Mehmet Murat ildan
If there is no adventure in your life, it is as if you live no life! Adventure is the real soul of man; without it, He is a stub!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only Gable's! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves — Goody, goody! — It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island — to make a safari — to be exotic, far-off! — But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!
Tennessee Williams
...why, I've just this instant found out... that we might have gone around the world in only seventy-eight days.
Jules Verne
I go to the movies because – I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies.
Tennessee Williams
There is a road which leads to all roads. The name of that road is adventure!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Where are you going this hot day, Mis’ DeJong?”Selina sat up very straight. “To Bagdad, Mrs. Pool.”“To — Where’s that? What for?”“To sell my jewels, Mrs. Pool. And to see Aladdin, and Harun-al-Rashid and Ali Baba. And the Forty Thieves.”Mrs. Pool had left her rocker and had come down the steps. The wagon creaked on past her gate. She took a step or two down the path, and called after them. “I never heard of it. Bag — How do you get there?”Over her shoulder Selina called out from the wagon seat. “You just go until you come to a closed door. And you say ‘Open Sesame!’ and there you are.”Bewilderment shadowed Mrs. Pool’s placid face. As the wagon lurched on down the road it was Selina who was smiling and Mrs. Pool who was serious.The boy, round eyed, was looking up at his mother. “That’s out of Arabian Nights, what you said. Why did you say that?” Suddenly excitement tinged his voice. “That’s out of the book. Isn’t it? Isn’t it! We’re not really ——”She was a little contrite, but not very. “Well, not really, perhaps. But ’most any place is Bagdad if you don’t know what will happen in it. And this is an adventure, isn’t it, that we’re going on? People in disguise in the Haymarket. Caliphs, and princes, and slaves, and thieves, and good fairies, and witches.”“In the Haymarket! That Pop went to all the time! That is just dumb talk.
Edna Ferber
[She had] a gay adventuresome spirit that was never to die, though it led her into curious places and she often found, at the end, only a trackless waste from which she had to retrace her steps painfully. But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and porphyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.
Edna Ferber
Art is an adventure. When it ceases to be an adventure, it ceases to be art. Not all of us pursue the inaccessible landscapes of the twelve-tone scale, just as not all of us strive for inaccessible mountain-tops, or glory in storms at sea. But the human incidence is there. Could it be that these two impractical pursuits — of beauty and of adventure’s embrace — are simply two differing profiles of the same uniquely human reality?
Robert Ardrey
Even a little adventure in the day will make that day a real day!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I can’t believe I thought this was going to be boring. This is great!
Denis Markell
To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.
Edward Albee
It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud.
Denis Markell
Roald Amundsen says that ‘Adventure is just bad planning.’ In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
Jules Verne
I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die.
William Shakespeare
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything -- to impress women.(Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)
Aaron Sorkin
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Sweat and the Furrow was Silas Weekley being earthly and spade-conscious all over seven hundred pages. The situation, to judge from the first paragraph, had not materially changed since Silas's last book: mother lying-in with her eleventh upstairs, father laid-out after his ninth downstairs, eldest son lying to the Government in the cow-shed, eldest daughter lying with her lover in the the hayloft, everyone else lying low in the barn. The rain dripped from the thatch, and the manure steamed in the midden. Silas never omitted the manure. It was not Silas's fault that its steam provided the only uprising element in the picture. If Silas could have discovered a brand of steam that steamed downwards, Silas would have introduced it.
Josephine Tey
I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.
Shay Youngblood
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.
William Trevor
What you really want is all too often hidden just behind what you think you want.
Christy Hall
Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write.
Christy Hall
I write because that is what I am supposed to do.
Christy Hall
A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.
Christy Hall
As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done. It is then that you may collapse.
Christy Hall
Don't be afraid of what you're creating.
Christy Hall
I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.
Christy Hall
It's hard to be a dreamer sometimes. I'm tired.
Christy Hall
No.'It's not a bad word. And it is very important to use at times. Practice saying it in the mirror. It's empowering.
Christy Hall
I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water.
Christy Hall
Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.
Christy Hall
I have written until I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. That can't be normal.
Christy Hall
The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.
Christy Hall
I'm not gonna lie...sometimes this whole writing thing is a lonely business.
Christy Hall
Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.
Christy Hall
That moment you realize you are doing the right thing for the wrong reasons and the wrong thing for the right reasons.
Christy Hall
Nothing is louder than silence.
Christy Hall
I do not recommend writing a screenplay in two weeks.
Christy Hall
When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.
Christy Hall
Give all that you can. No more. No less. Every. Single. Day.
Christy Hall
Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.
Christy Hall
Sometimes I dream so vividly, so expectantly, I wonder if I'm crazy...
Christy Hall
When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.
Sam Shepard
When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and read these books. The books were worn in a way they can only get worn by hands and eyes and minds
Niall Williams
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that’s how…If you practice an art faithfully it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up.
William Saroyan
A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)
Gertrude Stein
Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be—if there is to be a world. Write about all the things that men have written about since the beginning of writing and talking—but write to a point. Work hard at it, care about it. Write about our people: tell their story. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don’t pass it up. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don’t pass it up. Use it. Good luck to you. The Nation needs your gifts. Lorraine Hansberry speech, “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black,” given to Readers Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners, NYC, May 1, 1964.
Lorraine Hansberry
Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes?
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a writer is not an opponent of the government, he cannot be called as a writer, but just a disreputable lickspittle!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.
Edna Ferber
If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever good and beautiful experience you are having, if you are not writing them down, you are wasting them! Your thoughts on the paper are your real reality because the realities of the experience quickly disappear, they are already gone, they are dead, but the written thoughts of your experiences are still alive and can live thousands of years! Sit down and write them down!
Mehmet Murat ildan