1515 quotes by playwrights for you to enjoy

Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness. Susan Glaspell

Laziness Humility Fine Name Real Just Real Thing Thing

We're all made of the same kind of stuff, and there's none of us made of stuff that's flawless. Susan Glaspell

Made Kind Stuff None Same Flawless Us

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. Susan Glaspell

I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to row and skate, ride on the ferry in childhood, watch the logs or just dream. Susan Glaspell

Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walking on, as everything was closed for Sunday, upstairs through a sort of side entrance over a saloon. Susan Glaspell

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I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine, and she makes relationships realities as well as people. But I remember the intensity, the thrill, with which I read 'Passage to India.' How I would have hated anyone who took the book away from me. Susan Glaspell

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I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know. Suzan-Lori Parks

Ego Someone Know Read Reviews Inflated Refuse

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are. Suzan-Lori Parks

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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. Suzan-Lori Parks

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The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. Suzan-Lori Parks

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. Suzan-Lori Parks

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I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid. Tanya Saracho

Me Binary Fluid Kind Stuck Queer Being

The big, radical thing that I'm trying to do is to portray Latinas as complex human beings. Tanya Saracho

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When 'Vida' got the green light, Starz sent me this picnic basket of Jamie Fraser red wine and all these 'Outlander' things that I'll never open because it's like my sacred thing. Tanya Saracho

White, older showrunners told me, 'Why do you want to hire an all-Latinx writers room? Hire who's best for the show - don't get caught up in that.' And I was like, 'No.' For such an intimate show about the details of a culture? You can't fake that. The room needs to reflect the makeup of the show. Tanya Saracho

When you get a bunch of Latinxs together, we get to handle our stories. A cultural shorthand happens. Tanya Saracho

You Together Our Cultural Bunch Handle Get Stories Happens Shorthand

I would like to do more millennial, Latina, complicated stories. Tanya Saracho

Complicated Latina Would More Like Stories

I feel like a lot of us have a story to tell, it's just that we don't get the platform or the access or the opportunity. I don't know how the goddesses and gods and the stars aligned. I got the opportunity, and I do have to note that a Hispanic woman gave me that opportunity. Tanya Saracho

I had never heard this term before - gente-fication - which is also happening in Portland, Houston; it's happening in a lot of cities. It's upwardly mobile Latinx who want to come back to their neighborhoods where they grew up - or it's Latinx moving to L.A. and looking for a Latinx neighborhood to live or open a business. Tanya Saracho

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In TV, you're a 'writer for hire.' That means you're trying to guess what your boss wants and delivering that story. There's a lot of spitballing. The big thing is 'breaking story,' which means coming up with a story. You do it by episode and put it all up on a board. Tanya Saracho

I'm sad about my theatre career, but I've also fallen a bit in love with TV! Tanya Saracho

Sad Love Theatre Bit TV About Also Fallen Career

I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching. Tanya Saracho

Writing TV Understand Pitching

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