"In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company."

-- Marsha Norman

#Writing Quotes #Play Quotes #People Quotes

“When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.”
“I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.”

Source : Michael Lindsay-Hogg (2011). “Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond”, p.251, Knopf
“We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.”
“Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.”

Source : Derek Parfit, Samuel Scheffler (2013). “On What Matters: Volume One”, p.40, Oxford University Press
“And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.”
“One day, our love will conquer this dark circle. That's worth everything to me”
“People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.”
“Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.”

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