Dramatist Quotes

29 quotes by 22 authors

The cat is, above all things, a dramatist. — Margaret Benson
I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and… — Oliver Stone
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat… — Stefan Zweig
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is… — Brander Matthews
I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has… — Laurence Housman
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion — Edward Bond
The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does… — George Jean Nathan
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist. — Kenneth Tynan
Iâ€™d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed… — Budd Schulberg
The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I… — Peter Mullan
It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its… — David Mamet
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may… — W. Somerset Maugham
A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing… — Thornton Wilder
I was trained as a straight dramatist. — Josh Gad
Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of… — Oliver Stone
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. — Oscar Wilde
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made… — Thornton Wilder
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by… — George Eliot
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if… — Oscar Wilde

Who Wrote These Dramatist Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 29 Dramatist Quotes as follows: