A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted,… — 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
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
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
... if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries? — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“(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 Image
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
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 Image
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“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 Image
