When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built-story after story; and no edifice … - Brander Matthews
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built-story after story; and no edifice …
- Brander Matthews
To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later. - Brander Matthews
To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.
When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence. - Brander Matthews
Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt. - Brander Matthews
Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence. - Brander Matthews
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from other… - Brander Matthews
In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from other…
Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant. - Brander Matthews
Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. - Brander Matthews
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the cha… - Brander Matthews
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the cha…
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