Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, ...and Samuel Beckett one--and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as be...tween a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Samuel Sewall, in a world of wigs, Flouted opinion in his personal hair;... For foppery he gave not any figs, But in his right and honor took the air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: Well, the prodigal brother. When d'you get back? I ain't seen you since the surrender. Come to think of... it, I didn't see you at the surrender. Ethan Edwards: Don't believe in surrender. I still got my saber, Reverend. Didn't turn it into no plowshare, neither.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Capt. Rev. Samuel Clayton: What good did that do ya? Ethan Edwards: By what you preach none. By what that Comanch believes, a...in't got no eyes he can't enter the spirit land. Has to wander forever between the winds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »