A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attenti…

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this …

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious b…