On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being; the words are rising to their lips in immediate spontaneity … The theater is supremely fitted to say: "Behold! These things are."


Writers at Work interview (1958)

Thornton Wilder Quotes

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of...

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of...

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of...

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of...