Playwright Quotes

Most of the people of this world are coated round and round with self-esteem, and they're afraid to admit any understanding of the things which aren't good.
The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.
There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.
We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that there is a kind of dividing line in the world, and that on the one side is the good, and on the other side the bad, why, all I can say is that you have a wrong notion of things.
We don't see the Bible as it is itself. We see it in relation to a lot of people who surround it. And because we don't care for some of them, we think we shouldn't care for it.
We're all made of the same kind of stuff, and there's none of us made of stuff that's flawless.
Women are used to worrying over trifles.
Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle of the road. I don't know what kind of magic my mojo is working, but it's working.
Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.
Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.
Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's not true. But it doesn't appear familiar to me at all. And maybe that's because I have to be in a kind of coma in order to write. If it appeared familiar, I wouldn't.
I don't care what anybody says. Stick to the spirit of the play and you're doing it right. It's about embracing the spirit of the text instead of noodling some idea about things.
I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.
I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.
I learned that if we embrace what's happening, we are also embracing what is possible - and a road opens up for God to meet us halfway.
I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.
I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.
I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all excited and tell a lot of jokes, and sing some songs, and read from my work and remind people how powerful they are and how beautiful they are.
My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.
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