American - Playwright | November 5, 1943 - July 27, 2017
I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
Sam Shepard
WritingThinkFeelUselessWithout
The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.
GreatMeWritingInterestingYou
I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
LifeMy LifeDoingBornMoralSense
I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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The words I overuse are all adverbs.
Words
All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.
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I am always relaxed.
I AmAlwaysRelaxedAm
Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
PersonalityHumanHimEverything
I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.
LongYouKindPersonalOutUp
I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.
ThinkComedyEnoughTragedyStage
When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.
WritingThinkYouActorBrilliant
Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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