Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

Quote by T S Eliot

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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who...

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who...

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and...

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and...

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties...

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties...

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so...

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so...

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its...

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its...

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Home is where one starts from.

Home is where one starts from.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who...

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who...

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

You are the music while the music lasts.

You are the music while the music lasts.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent...

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent...

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is...

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is...

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and...

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and...