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
call days dire
You can't call 43 days a dire emergency,
breathing calling constantly deadlines eight helps hour might nine noon people tapping toes work
Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.
action emotion resembles spinning wheel
Emotion resembles a wheel spinning free. When the cogs work, action begins, emotion ceases.
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.
cash change charge check course people
Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director, but no one can change your words. People can give you notes, but you don't have to take them. In Hollywood you take them and you cash your check and that's your job. It's very different.
charge director mostly pictures stage terms visual
Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a performance. For theater, the director does everything he can and then says, 'Out you go,' and the actors are in charge of that stage every night.
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.
men totems bottom
With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
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.