Quote

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.

Arthur Miller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Arthur Asher Miller
Order
Crying
Writing
Impulse
Chaos
Inner
Cry
Spring
Meaning
Write
Springs

More quotes by Arthur Miller

Image
A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!
Arthur Miller
Image
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.
Arthur Miller
Image
A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs the big ones become ambassadors.
Arthur Miller
Image
Peace. It is a providence, and no great change we are only what we always were, but naked now.
Arthur Miller
Image
Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?
Arthur Miller
Image
The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress
Arthur Miller
Image
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.
Arthur Miller
Image
It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.
Arthur Miller
Image
Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. More weight, he says. And died.
Arthur Miller
Image
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
Arthur Miller
Image
Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
Arthur Miller
Image
The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.
Arthur Miller
Image
There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.
Arthur Miller
Image
The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.
Arthur Miller
Image
Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
Arthur Miller
Image
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
Arthur Miller
Image
Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.
Arthur Miller
Image
It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
Arthur Miller
Image
... vulgarity has no nation.
Arthur Miller
Image
But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
Arthur Miller