Flesh Quote by Peter Shaffer Download Open image “Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.” — Peter Shaffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Flesh Language Play Process Publishing Rehearsing
Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them. — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too;… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play. — David Hare Copy Share Image
When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the… — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough, you'll probably… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The trouble is if you dont spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.à — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
I was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish household. I don't think I ever had a single discussion with my parents about faith. It… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“In an ultimate sense I cannot know what I do in this place - yet I do ultimate things. Essentially I cannot know what… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“He knows no physics or engineering to make the world real to him… no paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it… no… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“When Equus leaves - if he leaves at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth.” — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
“Do you know what it's like for two people to live in the same house as if they were in different parts of the… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived. — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
You asked me once if I would still love you when your lips were puckered with age and your eyes were faded. I can… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
