Quotes from Romulus Linney

A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.

There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.

It isn't that I don't remember. I had my dreams. About another world. Mine. But King Joseph had to go to work, son. The world put that to him. So I took up my hammer and my saw and I made what I could as well as I could, and that was enough. More, you hear me, is crazy.

Are you such a coward that you would use a woman's babies against her?

When this is all over, my writing will add up to the sum total of me. The choices I make with my writing have a lot to do with myself as an unfolding personality, so that in the end your writing is really your destiny. It's a question of finding that central thing that's yours to say and yours alone.

You replace all my doubts... with others.

Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.