Daily Dialogue — November 9, 2015

“It may be what in the old days was called a spiritual crisis or whatever. It’s just the feeling as though the entire, every axiom of your life turned out to be false, and there was actually nothing, and you were nothing, and it was all a delusion. And that you were better than everyone else because you saw that it was a delusion, and yet you were worse because you couldn’t function.”

— The End of the Tour (2015), screenplay by Donald Margulies, book by David Lipsky

The Daily Dialogue theme for the month: Writers and Writing.

Trivia: Screenwriter Donald Margulies was one of director James Ponsoldt’s playwriting teachers in college.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Because good writers must have a heightened degree of empathy in order to write characters… and because good writers are reflective… and because writers are good with words… it is not surprising for writers to have deep psychological, even spiritual questions about the meaning of life.