“When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.” WritingMayRealSoundVoiceGoneClearMachinesTheaterSpeedWitCuresDawnShowersDelayHasteMphSinuses Author:Ray Bradbury
“The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.” WantWritingFilmLiteratureLossPleasureLevelsRiskDangerPerfectionTheaterMusicalFlightImperfectionEngagementExecutionMarginsTangibleImplicitBest Literature Author:Julio Cortazar
“The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.” PeopleWritingHeartChurchPrayerEventsMassTheaterLongingConstructsPlaywright Author:Marsha Norman
“I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingAudienceTheaterLikesOpposition Author:Eric Bogosian
“A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.” IfsKnowsWritingArtTalkingAudienceHellPaperTheaterWaveLengthPlaywright Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller
“I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.” WritingKindMeanWantedProduceTheaterGrapesSourSour Grapes Author:Larry Hovis