South African - Playwright | June 11, 1932 -
My essential identity is that of a writer.
Athol Fugard
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Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.
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Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.
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For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.
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I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.
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Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.
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The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
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There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.
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The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.
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