Famous quotes by Playwrights

"I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"I was an accomplice in my own frustration"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"They spend their time looking forward to the past"

John Osborne, Playwright

"I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong"

John Osborne, Playwright

"You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero"

Paddy Chayefsky, Playwright

"Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books, same reviews"

John Osborne, Playwright

"God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half"

Paddy Chayefsky, Playwright

"Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building"

John Osborne, Playwright

"You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment"

Paddy Chayefsky, Playwright

"It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades"

Paddy Chayefsky, Playwright

"Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us, and many of us much worse"

John Osborne, Playwright

"Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage"

John Osborne, Playwright

"Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years"

John Osborne, Playwright

"The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex"

John Osborne, Playwright

"Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves"

John Osborne, Playwright

"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones"

John Osborne, Playwright

"Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

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