Books Quote by Terry Deary

“The Greeks, or more correctly the Athenians, invented the idea of theatre, as they invented so many other social and cultural institutions which the…

— M.I. Finley

“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without wasting words,…

— Voltaire

Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist who's ever…

— Sarah Jones

“The theater of man is not always 'amusing', but it is always theater, and theater can be marveled at even when its content is…

— Tom Robbins

Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were…

— Holly Hunter

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have…

— Arthur Miller

“Greek tragedy operates through the ear. It is through the ear primarily that it enters the eyes, the senses, the mind, the heart. It…

— Paul Roche

The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks

— Edward Bond

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty…

— David Mamet

Plays are just all sort of playful asides, and there's a great deal of reference here to Greek mythology, plays, and dramas. The idea…

— Lauren Groff

My work is based upon contemporary Greek poetry - poetry which is concerned with the problems of today's civilization and, of course, with simple…

— Mikis Theodorakis

“literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.”

— Gabriel García Márquez