Scribbling Stage Quotes & Sayings

If you want people to recognize your authority, serve them first. — Moroaswi Tumiso Victor

We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa ... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice. — Dambisa Moyo

No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know. — W.S. Gilbert

You stabbed me in the ass?"
Bastien — Dianne Duvall

The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it. — J.J. Abrams

The little street
Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy. — Laurence Binyon

A writer is a reader moved to emulation. — Saul Bellow

Among the extremely diverse books lumped together as 'mysteries,' I shall try to judge each fairly according to the best standards of the type which the author intended to produce. — Anthony Boucher

I'll go wherever the work takes me. If something comes along that feels right, the family will come with me. — Shelley Conn