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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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" It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people. "

" When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other. "

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

" The presence of a bed changes the way people interact. "

" I think of myself as a healing artist. "

" 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. "

" I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process. "

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

" All of my plays are about people who have been marginalized... erased from the public record. "

" I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays. "

" I like to go into a space, listen, absorb, and then interpret. "

" A lot of the factories that had been the bedrock of many small cities were being shut down, which led me to investigate what I'm calling the 'de-industrial revolution.' "

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

" The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become. "

" 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'm a schizophrenic writer. "

" I think sometimes you need distance to reflect. "

" I am a storyteller by trade. "

" The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist. "

" I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive. "

" 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. "

" My grandfather was a Pullman porter, and my father put his way through college by cleaning floors at night in the libraries. I understand that working people are in some way the bedrock of my existence and the existence of many people here. "

" In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family. "

" I love Twitter. "

" If the Tony Awards want to remain relevant in the American theater conversation, then they need to embrace the true diversity of voices that populate the American theater. "

" I need a release from whatever I'm writing. "

" 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. "

" Broadway is a closed ecosystem. "

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

" 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. "