Arthur Miller Quotes

American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)

Arthur Asher Miller (17 October 1915 – 10 February 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and author. Widely recognized as one of the most significant American playwrights of the 20th Century, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 for Death of a Salesman.

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Birth Name: Arthur Asher Miller

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My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.