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" By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in. "
Lynn Nottage
Writing
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" Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations. "
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" The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist. "
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" Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living. "
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" When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That's how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about. "
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" Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again. "
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" There's never any ebb in human misery. "
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" Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson. "
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" I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative. "
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" Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs. "
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" Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics. "
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" My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends. "
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" For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories. "
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" Saying, 'I'm going to create jobs' is great, but before you create jobs, something has to be offered to alleviate some of the suffering now. "
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" It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way. "
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" I would like there to be gender equity. I would like the Broadway season to reflect sort of the demographic of the country. "
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" In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity. "
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" I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination. "
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" Each play I write has its own unique origin story. "
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" When I sat in rooms with middle-aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America. They had been solidly middle class for the majority of their working careers, but now they were feeling angry, disaffected, and in some cases, they actually had tears in their eyes. "
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" I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage. "
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" It is such a joy to join a legacy of amazing female playwrights who have managed to break through the glass ceiling and reinvigorate the Broadway stage by bringing a fresh and necessary perspective. "
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" Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture. "
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" There were not a lot of women in the theater department - it was really run by men, and so the message was that women can be onstage, but women can't really be backstage. "
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" It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say, 'It's someone else.' "
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" I wouldn't say I see my work as having a political ideology. Lynn Nottage certainly has a political ideology. I think that the work is an extension of who I am, but I don't think that when I write the play I'm looking to push the audience one way or another. "
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" I'm interested in people who are dwelling outside the mainstream. And very often, those people happen to be woman of color. "
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" Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power. "
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" We need to diversify the people who are backstage and producing and marketing these shows. It's the limitations of these people that are holding Broadway back. "
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