Dramatists Guild Quotes & Sayings

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity? — I.L. Peretz

There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way. — Kate Moss

Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present. — Elena Ferrante

I, too, am deeply concerned with an overarching idea that dramaturgs are now authors ... I am not taking the position that all dramaturgs own copyright, deserve special billing credit, or should receive remuneration akin to that of the playwright. I know from my ears at the Dramatists Guild that almost everyone a writer encounters has suggestions of how to write and rewrite the play or musical to make it work. — Dana Rosemary Scallon

Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all American Playwrights has always made me feel that I am returning as much to the theatre as I withdraw. Because only playwrights can ensure the well-being of playwrights. No one else will do it for us. — Peter Stone

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

You just have to realize that Jet Li is a movie star. He's great at what he does, but if he stepped into our world he wouldn't last long. — Chuck Liddell

Your life must not be static; you must keep on moving forward towards the higher goal. No obstacle can stop a man who is committed to a single calling or to a single prize — Sunday Adelaja

I like grass, I enjoy it and it suits my game. — Andy Roddick

The time that I would spend revisiting my old Get Your War On strips is more profitably spent Googling myself and reading comments about how people hate my pencil-sharpening business. — David Rees

They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them. — George Earle Buckle

There is no deep ongoing fellowship with a superior being without total obedience to him. — Francis Chan

We must also learn that time itself is indivisible, that every act is a blending of past experience, present situation and future expectancy. — Sydney J. Harris

Look what happens when we dream. — Alice Sebold

Make only your trust in God; His author must surely finish his work. Hold on! — Oladosu Feyikogbon

I do shodo magic," Dali said. "I curse through calligraphy. I have to write the curse out on a piece of paper and I can't move while I do it. One smudge, and I might kill the lot of us."
Oh good.
"But don't worry." Dali waved her arms. "It's so precise, it usually doesn't work at all."
Better and better. — Ilona Andrews