Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilderwas an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth17 April 1897
CityMadison, WI
CountryUnited States of America
writing winning way
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
writing men roles
How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.
book reading writing
I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.
writing impress be-good
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good