A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. George Bernard Shaw, "Answers to Nine Questions"
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. Leonard Bernstein
US composer & conductor (1918 - 1990) Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. Dag Hammarskjold
Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961) There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham
English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965) I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. Truman Capote
US author (1924 - 1984) We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. W. Somerset Maugham
English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965) A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann
German writer (1875 - 1955) Television is for appearing on - not for looking at. Noel Coward
English actor, dramatist, & songwriter (1899 - 1973) | 
