Romulus Linney > Quotes

“There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.”
― Romulus Linney, Six Plays

“It isn't that I don't remember. I had my dreams. About another world. Mine. But King Joseph had to go to work, son. The world put that to him. So I took up my hammer and my saw and I made what I could as well as I could, and that was enough. More, you hear me, is crazy.”
― Romulus Linney, Jesus Tales

“When this is all over, my writing will add up to the sum total of me. The choices I make with my writing have a lot to do with myself as an unfolding personality, so that in the end your writing is really your destiny. It’s a question of finding that central thing that’s yours to say and yours alone.”
― Romulus Linney

“Are you such a coward that you would use a woman’s babies against her?”
― Romulus Linney, The love suicide at Schofield Barracks: Democracy and Esther

“You replace all my doubts... with others.”
― Romulus Linney, The Sorrows of Frederick.