"How many times have people used a..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf

“A light here required a shadow there.”

“And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.”

“After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.”

“I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'”

“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”

“The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.”

“If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.”

“Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.”

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.”