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
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.
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.
call days dire
You can't call 43 days a dire emergency,
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.
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.
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.