“You may have sympathies, you may have grievances, you may have met with wrongs, and you may use them, if you chance to wish to, in the making of a play. But never in order to attack the wronger, never in order to voice your grievance, but merely using the material because it was sent to you by fate, as a wind of spring may chance to bring a straw to building birds” (Lord Dunsany 1928:62).
Straw comes. Build a strong nest Writer.
Lord Dunsany, 1928. ‘The Carving of the Ivory’ in The Art of Playwrighting. Lectures Delivered at the University of Pennsylvania on the Mask and Wig Foundation. University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 47-68.
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