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David Henry Hwang

"Yes, I am one of those people who feels that most of my work is adaptation of one sort or another. For me, it's a way to jump-start the engine. For example, some people use the technique of basing a character on a friend. They start writing with his or her voice, then at a certain point, the character takes off on his or her own. It probably no longer resembles the model, but it helped the author to get going. I find that's true of form, too. For every play I've written, I know what play I was trying to imitate. That helps me get going."

-- David Henry Hwang

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“Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.”
“During my time here [Guantanamo], as Nelson Mandela saysÂ â€¦Â the most important thing you have is time to think about things.Â I came to the conclusion thatÂ â€¦Â youâ€™re not going to gain anything with hate. Second thing, itâ€™s more destructive than itâ€™s constructive. Third thing: I came to a conclusion that love and forgiveness are more constructive and will bring people together.”
“I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism â€” ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from Voltaire's Ghost. It was asked, Are you not now convinced of another world? and rapped out, There is no other world â€” Death is only an incident in Life.”

Source : "Joseph Vance". Book by William De Morgan, Chapter XI, 1906.
“I've always been an optimist.”
“The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability”
“All my six husbands married me for different reasons.”
“To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.”
“If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.”

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