Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Romulus Linney

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Romulus Linney.
Last updated on September 8, 2024.
Romulus Linney

Romulus Zachariah Linney IV was an American playwright and novelist.

A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.
There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play. — © Romulus Linney
There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.
I think that when you do an adaptation for theater, it's either a marriage or a love affair..and so tremendous is my esteem and affection of many years for Ernest Gaines, there was no question but that I would be a very faithful adapter..which I did do.
Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.
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