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Lynn Nottage Quotes

American - Playwright | 1964 -

I'm a schizophrenic writer.

Writer Schizophrenic

I need a release from whatever I'm writing.

Writing Need Whatever Release

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.

Mother Women Woman Survive Thought

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.

Mother Theatre Kitchen Friends Place

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

Story Unique Play Write Own Origin

I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway.

Home Space Theatre Find Play Go

I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

Woman Think American You Wrong Know

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.

Women Power American Career Movies

I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.

Women History I Am People Society

Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.

Economics Minds Because Smaller

I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.

Women Moment War Writing Remember

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.

Learning Relationship School World

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