John Osborne
John Osborne
John James Osbornewas an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, known for his excoriating prose and intense critical stance towards established social and political norms. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth12 December 1929
thinking play people
I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.
waiting
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
alive humans human-beings
Let's pretend that we're human beings and that we're actually alive.
emotional atheism dies
Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it.
dog writing thinking
Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
writing order years
George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.
sex giving-up sacrifice
The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say -- or their beliefs -- or sex.