“The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades”
Mark Twain
“A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.”
George Bernard Shaw
“It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.”
Eric Anderson
“What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning”
Barbara De Angelis
“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading”
Igor Stravinsky
“When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.”
James Earl Jones
“Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left”
Robert Lynd
