At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after… — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
They offer, if we are wise enough or simple enough to take it, a model for what it means to give your… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
I was really drawn to thinking about the women in my life. Thinking about my mother, who's a very powerful force on… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I was at a stage in my life where I felt sort of comfortable being a dislocated person emotionally, feeling in some… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless.… — Amanda Plummer Copy Share Image
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint,… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I like cartoons. I like 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.' It's funny! It has things that kids wouldn't get. It's like, if… — David Archuleta Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
