In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
I doubt if I could love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clenches his fist. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Drama criticism ... is a self-knowing account of the way in which one's consciousness has been modified during an evening at the theatre. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
