The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
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 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
Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“The growing sensitivity of people to any sort of open and frank discussion of important issues is no service to civilisation, let… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any. — 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
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
“I personally think that what the big (writers) have in common is a fierce moral sensibility, which is unquenchable and they are… — 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
The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend… — 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
As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about,… — 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
Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success. — 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
