Oertaxd Quotes & Sayings

The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to the audience. It's a stream of information, but you've got your hand on the tap, and you control in which order the audience receives it and with what emphasis, and how you hold it all together. — Tom Stoppard

All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a question of who is to ride outside & who in after all. — Joseph Dalton Hooker

It ratified a theory of mine that great writing could sneak up on you, master of a thousand disguises: prodigal kinsman, messenger boy, class clown, commander of artillery, altar boy, lace maker, exiled king, peacemaker, or moon goddess. — Pat Conroy

It isn't the size of the family, it's the interactions of the members inside. — Michele Borba

What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism. — James Brown

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart. — Patricia Highsmith