Analyzing Quote by John Patrick Shanley

Keeping one's eyes open, listening, watching, being quiet, adopting some of the techniques of the psychoanalyst in talking to people, will bring you that…

— Janet Malcolm

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through…

— Rockne S. O'Bannon

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are…

— Little Simz

I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which…

— Jonathan Miller

I've always wanted to be psychoanalyzed in a den of iniquity.

— Maya Banks

Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.

— Larry Brown

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

— Robert Jay Lifton

I'm a very visual thinker, so the characters are running through my head, doing what they're doing when I'm writing them. And there'll be…

— Paul Dini

What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is like trying…

— Wallace Shawn

For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing. That's important to me, in…

— Aneurin Barnard

Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how…

— Amy Bloom

Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read…

— Joanna Scott