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" I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process. "
Lynn Nottage
Process
Procrastination
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" I am a storyteller by trade. "
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Trade
" 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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New York
Reading
Distance
" By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in. "
Lynn Nottage
Writing
Stories
Value
" Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power. "
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Power
Standing
Up
" African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently. "
Lynn Nottage
Movies
American
Career
" I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze. "
Lynn Nottage
Life
Sitting
Mother
" 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. "
Lynn Nottage
Conversation
Theatre
Race
" I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative. "
Lynn Nottage
Which
Way
Poverty
" Silence is complicity. I believe that. "
Lynn Nottage
Believe
Silence
I Believe
" 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. "
Lynn Nottage
Perspective
Amazing
Joy
" Growing up in New York City, I'd flirted with the idea of driving, but between the subway and the sidewalks, I'd never needed to learn. "
Lynn Nottage
Growing Up
New
Driving
" Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again. "
Lynn Nottage
Play
Same
Again
" For me, the first thing is to tell a good story. "
Lynn Nottage
Story
Good Story
Me
" 'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I really wanted to explore the subject matter unencumbered. Otherwise, I felt as though I'd have the voice of dramaturges and literary managers saying, 'This is great, but we'll never be able to produce it.' "
Lynn Nottage
Saying
Great
Play
" Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living. "
Lynn Nottage
Living
Business
Creatures
" There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also been part of my experience there. It's not just war and famine all the time. "
Lynn Nottage
Time
Life
Way
" In senior year at college, Paula Vogel was my playwriting teacher; she is the first person to introduce me to the notion that a woman could actually forge a career in the theatre. Up until then, the possibility seemed remote and inaccessible, as I had very few role models who directly touched my life. "
Lynn Nottage
Life
Teacher
Theatre
" When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other. "
Lynn Nottage
You
Turn
Create
" I teach at Columbia, and I'm always looking for books I can lose myself in during the 45 minutes I'm on the train. "
Lynn Nottage
Myself
Train
I Can
" Once working people discover that, collectively, we have more power than we do as individual silos, then we become an incredibly powerful force. But I think that there are powers that be that are invested in us remaining divided along racial lines, along economic lines. "
Lynn Nottage
Powerful
Think
People
" There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don't have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation narratives. "
Lynn Nottage
Feeling
Vision
Women
" If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that. "
Lynn Nottage
Questions
Anger
Doing
" As a woman of color, slowly and with some coercing, the not-for-profit theaters around the country are beginning to recognize and embrace the power of our stories, but with regards to Broadway and other commercial venues, we remain very much marginalized and excluded from that larger creative conversation. "
Lynn Nottage
Beginning
Woman
Power
" I think sometimes you need distance to reflect. "
Lynn Nottage
Sometimes
Distance
You
" 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. "
Lynn Nottage
I Am
Think
Looking
" It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway. "
Lynn Nottage
Only
Work
Struggle
" 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. "
Lynn Nottage
Party
Imagination
Dinner
" In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family. "
Lynn Nottage
Abandoned
Family
Women
" I wrote 'Ruined' and 'Vera Stark' at the same time. That's just how my brain functions - when I'm dwelling someplace very heavy, I need a release. "
Lynn Nottage
Brain
Time
Same
" The stage is the last bastion of segregation. "
Lynn Nottage
Segregation
Last
Stage