David Lindsay
David Lindsay
David Lindsay was a Scottish author now best remembered for the philosophical science fiction novel A Voyage to Arcturus...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 March 1876
men totems bottom
With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
call days dire
You can't call 43 days a dire emergency,
answer
I don't know, and I can't answer you tonight.
imagination study
Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.
expecting flood gate opened potential
We opened every potential flood gate we could, ... We were at least expecting a lot of rain.
best moment study therefore whenever work
The best moment for work or study never arrives; one should therefore work whenever one can.
action emotion resembles spinning wheel
Emotion resembles a wheel spinning free. When the cogs work, action begins, emotion ceases.
class age identity
From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.
writing dark people
I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
play outsiders clarity
My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.
writing passion play
I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.
hard-work opportunity thinking
We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.
class identity knows
Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.
writing thinking who-i-am
I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.