Kenneth Tynan Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  N.Y. Times, 1 Dec. 1963

• The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Writing, Play, Effort

• Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Writing, Creative, Would Be

• All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Communication, Writing, Cutting

  Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”

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