Marsha Norman Quotes About Writing
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I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.
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Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
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The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.
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I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.
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After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as ''night, Mother.'
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In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.
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Write about the thing that frightens you most.
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Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
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