Greek Playwrights Quotes & Sayings

I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days. — Walter Jon Williams

But James is my north now. The flames are my north now. Our dark secrets are my north now. — Kiersten White

In some strata of Greek and Roman society the engineer was actually denigrated, higher esteem being accorded to poets, playwrights and sculptors. According to Plutarch, Archimedes was praised for refusing to contaminate his theoretical and mathematical science with practical applications, although under extreme pressure at the siege of Syracuse in Sicily he did design practical machinery. — Stephanie Dalley

Tobacco surely was designed
To poison, and destroy mankind. — Philip Freneau

Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies.

If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights, it is not because he deals with moral conflicts but because he understood that reason cannot be the guide of life. — John N. Gray

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children — L. Frank Baum

Only the brave and adventuresome find God, never the timid. — Harold Klemp