The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“A book, a poem, a play — they start as fantasms but they end up as things, like a box of crackers… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography--proper work for tired artists--but every autobiographer must secretly believe… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“If you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certain age, or… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“(Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
