Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilderwas an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth17 April 1897
CityMadison, WI
CountryUnited States of America
bullying real perception
There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.
healing doe essentials
What is essential does not die but clarifies.
skeletons water rejection
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.
peace war thinking
When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
drama real eye
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.
health alternatives dawn
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
home pride envy
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
lying conventions falsehood
A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.
book reading writing
I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.
literature platitudes orchestration
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
important important-days enough
Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
coffee sleep sunflower
Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
realize-life our-town realizing
Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?
play pure
A play visibly represents pure existing.