Eugene Ionesco Quotes
All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.
Quotes to Explore
-
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
-
People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
-
When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
-
I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
-
I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
-
My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
-
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
-
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
-
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
-
The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.
-
I've always written down how I feel.
-
Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.
-
All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.
-
Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten
-
I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.
-
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.
-
Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.
-
Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.
-
Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.
-
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
-
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
-
I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
-
All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.
