WILDER, THORNTON : Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. (Thornton Wilder, U.S. novelist and playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes, 1897-1975)

WILDER, THORNTON : If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good. (Thornton Wilder, U.S. novelist and playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes, 1897-1975)

WILDER, THORNTON : Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. (Thornton Wilder, U.S. novelist and playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes, 1897-1975)