Source: Drama
“Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?”
Preface to A Way Out : A One-act Play (1929)
General sources
Context: Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing. A least lyric alone may have a hard time, but it can make a beginning, and lyric will be piled on lyric till all are easily heard as sung or spoken by a person in a scene — in character, in a setting. By whom, where and when is the question.
The Adventures of Sally (1922)
“Prose is private drama; poetry is corporate drama.”
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 275
1001 quotations to inspire you before you die, Quintessence Editions Ltd., 2016, ISBN 978-1-84403-895-4
HuffPost Article - Interview with Lynn Shelton, Director of Humpday - 25 May 2011 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/interview-with-lynn-shelt_b_227673 - Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20210727183525/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/interview-with-lynn-shelt_b_227673
“I think a good book is a good book forever.
I don't think they get less good because times change.”
“She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.”
“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
