Arthur Miller - Work Quotes

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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.

Arthur Miller
The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.

Arthur Miller
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

Arthur Miller
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's no one to live in it.

Arthur Miller
Work a lifetime to pay off a house — You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.

Arthur Miller
Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!

Arthur Miller
I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

Arthur Miller
What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

Arthur Miller
Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.

Arthur Miller