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.

Eugene Ionesco

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• 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.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Effort
  • First
  • Step

• 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.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Written

• 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.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Way
  • Written

• I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Love
  • Word
  • Written

• 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.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Written

• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Think
  • Written

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Books
  • Public
  • Written

• 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.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Written
  • Reader

• 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.

  

  Eric Brown
  • Ideas
  • Inspiration
  • Written

• I've always written down how I feel.

  

  Adele
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Written

• Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Work
  • Way
  • Written

• All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

  

  Leopold Kronecker
  • Simple
  • Result
  • Investigation

• Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten

  

  Daniel Shipley
  • Great
  • Song
  • Written

• I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Know
  • Word
  • Written

• What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Why
  • Question
  • Written

• Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Focus
  • Limits

• 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.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Black
  • Cool
  • Firsts

• Games are the most elevated form of investigation.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Games
  • Form
  • Investigation

• I was very much against the Vietnam War, and Max Askeli was visiting Lyndon Johnson in the White House cheering him on, writing editorials. And in The Voice one day I once referred to him as Commander Askeli. And I called in to The Reporter to go over the galleys of a music piece I had written, and the editor whispered to me, `It's not gonna run. You're not gonna run. Max Askeli has fired you because of what you said about him.'

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Run
  • Written
  • White House

• Take the time you need to learn the craft. Then sit down and write. When you hand over your completed manuscript to a trusted reader, keep an open mind. Edit, edit, and edit again. After you have written a great query letter, go to AgentQuery.com. This site is an invaluable resource that lists agents in your genre. Submit, accept rejection as part of the process, and submit again. And, of course, never give up.

  

  Kathleen Grissom
  • Never
  • Learn
  • Process

• Acting is playing, and it is like being a big kid. Yeah, it's great. You get paid.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Great
  • Acting
  • Kid

• 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.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Written
  • Investigation
  • Greece