“There was a cable-TV program that documented how Peeps are made, and it showed unlimited hordes of Peeps bouncing merrily down a conveyor belt, right toward the camera. I came.”
Source: I Shudder (2009), p. 106
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American playwright and screenwiter 1957Related quotes
Pausing on the Stairs (1957)<!-- also quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (2014 edition) -->
Context: Useless, of course, to point out that the genesis of good plays is hardly ever abstract; that it tends, on the contrary, to be something as concrete and casual as a glance intercepted, a remark overheard, or an insignificant news item buried at the bottom of page three. Yet it is by trivialities like these that the true playwright's blood is fired. They spur him to story-telling; they bring on the narrative fit that is his glory and his basic credential. Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a peeping Tom, and I will show you the makings of a dramatist. Only the makings, of course: curiosity about people is merely the beginning of the road to the masterpiece: but if that curiosity is sustained you will find, when the rules have been mastered and the end has been reached, that a miracle has happened.
“Let the air strike our tune,
Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon.”
The Witch (1616), Act v. Sc. 2. "I ’ll charm the air to give a sound, While you perform your antic round", Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act iv. Sc. 1.
“I traveled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.”
Source: The Book Thief
A.I. review http://www.joebobbriggs.com/drivein/2003/AI.html
Part II, p. 76
Written in Passy (1784), Ch. VI
The Autobiography (1818)
Source: The Path of the King (1921), Ch. VIII "The Hidden City"