Eugène Ionesco - Write Quotes

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The theater chose me. As I said, I started with poetry, and I also wrote criticism and dialogue. But I realized that I was most successful at dialogue. Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language, but in their behavior as well.

Eugène Ionesco

To introduce people to a different world, to encounter the miracle of being, that is important. When I write The train arrives at the station, it is banal, but at the same time sensational, because it is invented.

Eugène Ionesco

I have no ideas before I write a play. I have them when I have finished it... I believe that aritistic creation is spontaneous. It is for me.

Eugène Ionesco

People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

Eugène Ionesco