Foreword
Ray Bradbury
The best way to introduce this book is to speak well and perfectly about the author. For you can’t expect a stage manager like Lawrence Stern to stand up front and blow his own horn. Someone who knows him must do it for him, and I gladly assume the task.
Now, there are all sorts of virtues a stage manager must have. You will find them listed and profusely described in the pages of this book. But the supreme virtue among man is: the stage manager must arrive before everyone and leave long after everyone else is gone.
Of course that is the essence of creativity in any field you may want to mention. Those who love writing stay up until dawn to finish a story. Those who love painting work around the clock until they drop dead ...
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