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" I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously. "
Me
Impossible
Voice
" If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything. "
Opposite
Think
Students
" I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant. "
Think
Now
Feel
" I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont. "
Really
Town
Trying
" I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear. "
Work
Terrible
Speaking
" I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down. "
Down
Play
Talking
" I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again. "
Myself
Small
People
" I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing. "
College
Writing
Start
" I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore. "
Thank God
Wake Up
Morning
" I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew. "
Evening
Emotions
Mother
" Writing is my primary way of expressing myself. "
Writing
Way
Myself
" Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. "
Controlling
Writing
Up
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