Playwright Quotes

I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.
I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.
I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.
I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
I'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.
I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
I'm not a big fan of anniversaries.
I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.
In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.
It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.
It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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