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  • " The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers."

    - George Jean Nathan

    Source: The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations, by Louis Phillips


  • " One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick."

    - Moss Hart

    Source: The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations, by Louis Phillips


  • " Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist."

    - Kenneth Tynan

    Source: The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations, by Louis Phillips


  • " A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation."

    - Ring Lardner

    Source: The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations, by Louis Phillips


  • " I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something."

    - David Henry Hwang

    Source: The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations, by Louis Phillips