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All Quotes by author - David Rabe

" Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes. "

" I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is demanded, but there are very few teams. "

" I wrestled with my Catholicism for a long time. It took a long time to escape. It began with a sense that it was repressive, stern, judgmental. It was passionate, but it was terrifying. There were individual priests and nuns who were helpful, but the religion was cold. "

" My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting. "

" Often my characters don't know what the issues of the play are. They think they're doing one thing, but something else is actually orchestrating their lives. "

" Sometimes it's learning how the play wants to function rather than imposing something on it. For me, that's the thrill in directing. "

" There's no demand for a body of work, though writers will be criticized for not having produced one. "

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