Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

Quote by Arthur Miller

Topics: Writing Quotes

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon...

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon...

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New...

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New...

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I...

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I...

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to...

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to...

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home...

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home...

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab...

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab...

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of...

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of...

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home...

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home...

There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes...

There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes...

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without...

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without...

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.