American - Dramatist | September 21, 1947 -
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman
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At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
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When 'night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.
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Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
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In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.
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People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.
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If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.
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Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.
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Success is always something that you have to recover from.
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People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
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I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.
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After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as 'night, Mother.'
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