Friel was also instrumental in setting up the influential Field Day Theatre Company in 1980. That group set out to chart a territory that was often called a ‘fifth province’ – an imaginative space that was distinguished from the four
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“He wants to say. That is to say, he means. As in the French, “vouloir dire,” which means, literally, to want to say, but which means, in fact, to mean. He means to say what he wants. He wants to say what he means. He says what he wants to mean. He means what he says.”
― The Invention of Solitude
― The Invention of Solitude
“To write is human, to edit is divine.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Γιατί είναι πάντα ένας ν' αγαπά και ένας για ν' αγαπιέται.”
― Η μυστηριώδης ασθένεια
― Η μυστηριώδης ασθένεια
“…no one is exactly sure of what they mean on any given subject until they have written their thoughts down; I similarly believe that we have very little understanding of what we have thought until we have submitted those thoughts to others who are at least as intelligent as ourselves.”
― Danse Macabre
― Danse Macabre
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