Thornton Wilder Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“A play visibly represents pure existing.”

“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.”

“I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.”

“Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.”

“Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.”

“Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.”

“It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.”

“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 action.'”