Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. – Edward Bond
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama. – Edward Bond
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. – Edward Bond
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama. – Edward Bond
Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society. – Edward Bond
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. – Edward Bond
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion. – Jane Smiley