6 quotes
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
Writers at Work interview (1958)
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: "Behold! These things are." Yet most dramatists employ it to say: "This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action."
Writers at Work interview (1958)
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
Writers at Work interview (1958)
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
Writers at Work interview (1958)
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
Writers at Work interview (1958)
The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.
Writers at Work interview (1958)