#tension

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality. ↗

— Edward Albee

#character #every #extension #know #material

...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands... ↗

— John Geddes

#hands #love #relationships #silence #spirit

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#any #athlete #childhood #cool #down

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#democracy #direction #eases #education #final

I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#bed #bedroom #chained #computer #day

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#act #bad #creative #creative act #i

I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#any #destructive #find #i #kind

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#couple #dramatic #elegant #emotion #every

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#develop #incorporate #more #own #prose

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! ↗

— Manuel Puig

#create #hard #her #his #language