Horton Foote Quotes

• I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.

  Horton Foote

  People, World, Faces

  Horton Foote (1989). “Cousins ; And, The Death of Papa: The Final Two Plays of The Orphans' Home Cycle”, p.13, Grove Press

  50 Copy quote

• But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos.

  Horton Foote

  Writing, Past, Thinking

  14 Copy quote

• When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

  Horton Foote

  Writing, Stories, Paid

  8 Copy quote

• If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.

  Horton Foote

  Writing, Lessons, Firsts

  "Lucky Man" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

  10 Copy quote

• You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to working.

  Horton Foote

  Thinking, Play, Watches

  6 Copy quote

• I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.

  Horton Foote

  People, Mind, Trying

  Horton Foote (1989). “Cousins ; And, The Death of Papa: The Final Two Plays of The Orphans' Home Cycle”, p.19, Grove Press

  8 Copy quote

• I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

  Horton Foote

  Strong, Oral Tradition, Tradition

  8 Copy quote

• Writing is the thing that props me up.

  Horton Foote

  Writing, Props

  "His Kind of Town" by Alex Witchel, www.nytimes.com. August 19, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin