Arthur Miller Quotes

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life.

I am a good woman. I know it.

More Weight -Giles Corey-

In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

cleave not to faith when faith brings blood." - Rev. John Hale

What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister." - Rev. John Hale

Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.

To admit what you see endangers principles.

When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now

Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.

Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.

I made a gift for you, Good Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing." - Mary Warren

The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window and it ticks.

You never do any good until you get into some trouble.