“Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game, with the exuberance of experience, the strange and terribly subtle final aims of my Asiatic Blood that remain a mystery to you.” PlayGamesMysteryBloodStrangeAimFinalsJewVicesCleverSubtleExuberance Author:Paul Meyer
“I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.” WayPlayMovingChallengesMysteryMetsTheaterMessProseTranslateBrethren Author:Ben Brantley
“The Infinite alone exists and is Real; the finite is passing and false. The Original Whim in the Beyond caused the apparent descent of the Infinite into the realm of the seeming finite. This is the Divine Mystery and Divine Game in which Infinite Consciousness for ever plays on all levels of finite consciousness.” RealPlayGamesLevelsConsciousnessMysteryDivineInfiniteOriginalsPassingPassingsRealmsFiniteSeemingWhimDescentInfinite Consciousness Author:Meher Baba
“I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.” WritingKindBookMatterPlayUseRomanceLanguageDarkMysterySubjectsStrangeMurderPlotWhy NotSubject MatterThrillersHarlequin Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.” IfsKnowsWorldGivingSelfPlaySeemsDoubtSacrificeMysteryFairsNunClergy Book:Green Dolphin Street Source: Green Dolphin Street
“In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else.” GivingPlayMysteryReaderFairsDisguiseClue Author:Joan Lowery Nixon
“Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the whole shifting tidal theater where I make small constructions, my metaphors, my defenses. Against which I play out theories, doubts, certainties bright as high tide in sunlight, which shift just as that brightness does, in fog or rain.” DoeEnoughPlayWholeDoubtMysteryTheorySorrowRainTheaterMetaphorDefenseCertaintyConstructionTidesSunlightFogShiftingBrightness Author:Mark Doty
“The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.” WritingKindPlayCertainMysteryComplexesMotiveGenesis Author:Athol Fugard
“The person is a mystery. What I'm playing is the person so I really get to tell you and show you and communicate to you who I think the real person is and that real person is me. The most important thing is to play the human being you are creating, which is my job.” ThinkingHumansPersonsImportantRealPlayShowsJobsHuman BeingsMysteryCreatingImportant ThingsCommunicateReal Person Author:James Cromwell
“Voiceover work reminds me of old-time radio. When I was little I used to sneak and stay up at night and listen to Mystery Radio Theater - I loved all those old radio plays.” LittlesPlayUsedNightMysteryTheaterRadioSneakOld TimeRadio Plays Author:Virginia Madsen
“My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.” ThinkingKindLittlesHas BeensPlaySchoolSportsTalkingClassBoysMysteryBottomLogicalClueLittle BoysLinear Author:Anthony Hopkins
“A lot of guys in New York will only play with an edge. They find their groove and that's their groove. to me, once I do that, there's no point in playing anymore because it should always be a mystery. Depending on who you are playing with, there are hundreds of ways of playing. I think that a master can play all those different kinds of time.” ThinkingWayShouldKindDifferentPlayGuyMysteryNew YorkMastersWho You AreEdgesDifferent KindsNo PointGroove Author:Fred Hersch
“The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery.” WantDonePlayDesireLanguageMysteryOpera Author:Rufus Wainwright
“When in doubt, the rule of threes is a rule that plays well with all of storytelling. When describing a thing? No more than three details. A character's arc? Three beats. A story? Three acts. An act? Three sequences. A plot point culminating in a mystery of a twist? At least three mentions throughout the tale. This is an old rule, and a good one. It's not universal - but it's a good place to start.” WritingWellsPlayCharacterStoriesThreeDoubtMysteryBeatsUniversalDetailsTalesStorytellingPlotTwistsSequenceDescribingArcsGood PlaceWhen In Doubt Author:Chuck Wendig
“Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.” IfsPlayCertainHateMysteryExamplePinter Author:John Guare
“I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.” WritingI CanPlayStoriesMovingBitsNovelMysteryCrossesEdits Author:Alan Rickman
“Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.” ShouldPlayCharacterLeftDealsMysteryTheatreRevelations Book:New Selected Essays: Where I Live Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live
“If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.” IfsPlayBoysMysteryDevilDare Book:Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman Source: Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman
“There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.” PlayThreeHeavenMysteryTerribleBattleThousandRainBlindShiningSnowPoeticTowersFogHostileMistHighlightsSwansSkyscraperTresses Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people can lend your bodies now, play with them, give them as we could not. But remember that you have paid a price: that of a world rich in mystery and delicate emotion. It is not only species of animal that die out. But whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know. But pity yourself for what it did.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldGivingPlayWholeFeelingsBodyPastRememberYoungDiesAnimalEmotionRichWiseMysteryPaidLaysSpeciesYour BodyPityDelicate Author:John Fowles