Marsha Norman Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

  Marsha Norman

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "Success Comes in Cans: Learning Lessons for Life". Book by Kriss Akabusi and Tricia Hartley, 2006.

• The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

  Marsha Norman

  Prayer, Writing, Heart

• I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

  Marsha Norman

  Writing, Piano, Grew Up

• Write about the thing that frightens you most.

  Marsha Norman

  Writing

• I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

  Marsha Norman

  Writing, Careers, Painful

• Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

  Marsha Norman

  Writing, Joy, And Love

• 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.

  Marsha Norman

  Writing, Play, People

• 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.'

  Marsha Norman

  Mother, Writing, Night

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