Jerome Lawrence
Jerome Lawrence
Jerome Lawrencewas an American playwright and author. After graduating from Ohio State University in 1937 and the University of California, Los Angeles in 1939, Lawrence partnered with Robert Edwin Lee to help create Armed Forces Radio. The two built a partnership over their lifetimes, and continued to collaborate on screenplays and musicals until Lee's death in 1994...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth14 July 1915
CountryUnited States of America
writing soul mind
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
distance character men
Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline. Henry Drummond, a character in Inherit the Wind
writing thinking passionate
I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.
laughter humor thinking
When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.
science men air
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
men fool he-man
The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.
good-morning good-day joy
It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.
college fella figured fools-and-foolishness man smart takes
The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool. College examinations notwithstanding, it takes a very smart fella to say "I don't know the answer!