Jerome Lawrence Quotes

The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.

Jerome Lawrence

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Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.

Barry Ritholtz
- Time
- Writing
- Real
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

V. S. Naipaul
- Up
- World
- Children
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

Walter Kirn
- Writing
- Future
- Past
Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.

Laura Wade
- Writing
- Fun
- Language
I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

Natalie du Toit
- Hard
- Train
- Anybody
Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.

Vicki Delany
- Writing
- Crime
- Greatest