I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
From Tom Stoppard
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.
I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured.
The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.
If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.
The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.
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