Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I think of myself as a healing artist. "

Related Quotes:

" In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields. "

" We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Broadway's never my end goal because of the plays I write. These are tough plays. Of course there's a lot of humor, but my goal is just to reach as wide an audience as possible, however that happens. "

" I am a storyteller by trade. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration. "

" The stage is the last bastion of segregation. "

" I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze. "

" By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in. "

" Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be. "

" Broadway is a closed ecosystem. "

" In many ways, I consider those to be my formative years, because when you're in school, you have a distant relationship to the world in that most of what you're learning is from books and lectures. But at Amnesty, I came face to face with realities in a very direct and harsh way. "

" I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them. "

" 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. "

" What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it. "

" I would like there to be gender equity. I would like the Broadway season to reflect sort of the demographic of the country. "

" The great thing about 'Vera Stark' is that my research was watching movies, screwball comedies, so I could literally sit back and relax. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wonder: Would there be a black president if people hadn't already begun imagining, through film and television, that a black man is president? It's self-actualization. "

" The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller. "

" 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. "

" Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture. "

" The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long. "

" 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. "

" By and large, the theatre establishment is run by a white majority. "