Ibsen Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes…

— Colm Tóibín

“At first, this earth, a stage so gloomed with woe You all but sicken at the shifting scenes And yet be patient. Our playwright…

— Jack London

“My study throngs with characters waiting to be written. Imaginary people, anxious for a life, who tug at my sleeve, crying, 'Me next! Go…

— Diane Setterfield

“A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.”

— John Connolly

“There are moments, such as the one that oppresses me now, when I feel my own self far more than I feel external things,…

— Fernando Pessoa

“This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirrour of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following…

— Samuel Johnson

“And before me the empty table at the Theater Café with my reservation - Barnum Nilsen, 8PM - the only table no one sits…

— Lars Saabye Christensen

“Since this time yesterday she had made the pleasing discovery that she was fast falling in love violently, and as it now appeared unrequitedly,…

— Rhoda Broughton

“In that moment, I lost completely the illusion of time and space: the world unfurled its drama simultaneously along a meridian that had no…

— Henry Miller

“Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the…

— Malcolm Cowley

“If fast-paced entertainment is not among the pleasures generally offered by the literary novel, other pleasure often abound: a richness of language, a heart-breaking…

— Joshua Henkin

“In their opinion, a tragedy with so little plot could not conform with the rules of drama. I enquired whether they were complaining that…

— Jean Racine