Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.
The good traveler has the gift of surprise.
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.
Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.
The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington