Action Quote by Gavin Bryars

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain…

— Tennessee Williams

“Write all your notes and quotes on separate three-by-five-inch cards. Then, when you get ready to organize your thinking, just spread them all out…

— David Allen

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.

— Jens Lekman

You take a sound, any sound, record it and then change it's nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds;…

— Daphne Oram

“Categories No. 4 and No. 5: Three small cards to a straight and two small cards with an ace.”

— Ray Zee

I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book.…

— Hilton Als

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee

I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft…

— Gore Vidal

Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.

— Marina Abramovic

“the Hook, the Inciting and Key Events, the period of character reactions, the Midpoint, the period of character actions, the Climax, and the Resolution.…

— K.M. Weiland

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the…

— Tom Stoppard

Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it's about. The content's got to be great, but then it's got to be…

— Ron White