Home / Quotes / Quote by Katori Hall

Quote by Katori Hall

“Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.”

Author

Katori Hall

Katori Hall is a celebrated playwright known for her powerful and thought-provoking works. Born on May 10, 1981, she has made significant contributions to the theater world with her unique voice and storytelling. more

“A story of remarkable simplicity and charm. A young swimmer invites us into sea off the coast of California where through her eyes we see an entire realm of creatures we have never known so intimately before. Truly for people of all ages, Lynne Cox's adventure with the baby whale, Grayson, becomes a parable and an experience, thanks not only to the author's great and generous spirit, but through her immense gift for describing nature.”

“Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot imagine that God designed this disproof of His own existence.”

Whole Purpose Existence Imagine Design Evolution Higher Intelligent Imagine That Variation Intelligent Design Higher Purpose

Author:James K. Galbraith

“I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.”

Believe Reason Stories I Believe Novel Sufficient

Book:The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“I had always wondered what Reverend Lovoy meant when he talked about "grace." I understood it now. It was being able to give up something that it broke your heart to lose, and be happy about it.”

Giving Heart Able Loses Grace Giving Up Understood Broke Reverends

Book:Boy's Life

Source: Boy's Life

“It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.”

Whole Humanity Progress Objects Ugly Lasting Steady Tangible Elimination Substitution Thoughts And Words

Author:Anna Pavlova

“...an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town. If it isn't, you may be in the wrong business. Our words come from obsessions we must submit to, whatever the social cost. It can be hard. It can be worse forty years from now if you feel you could have done it and didn't. It is narcissistic, vain, egotistical, unrealistic, selfish, and hateful to assume emotional ownership of a town or a word. It is also essential.”

Ifs Feels Years May Real Hard Done Social Emotional Cost Essentials Towns Assuming Selfish Obsession Vain Forty Submit Ownership Hateful Narcissistic Our Words Egotistical

Author:Richard Hugo

“How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive?”

Dream Light Quality Alive Habit Noise Tone Stink

Book:Cannery Row

Source: Cannery Row

“America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.”

Source: Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say

Quote by Katori Hall

Author

You May Also Like