Paul Green

North Carolina · born or raised1894–1981

American playwright (1894–1981)

Born in Lillington
Died in Chapel Hill
Studied at Campbell University
Studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Worked at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Quotations with a citation

A story is an arrangement on the part of the artist of the actions and the raw material of life shaped into an art form in which the participants, the readers, the spectators, the auditors, they can come and see that and get enriched. It's part of the process of humanistic growth.

[T]he artist, the playwright, he can never put life down just as it is. He interprets it.

You have to let each side have its voice and say its say.

I came up here and was very much like Jude the Obscure who looked toward the dream city of Oxford or Cambridge where he might go to school some day and this place to me was the light on the hill. So, when I got up here and got close by, I found that it was more human