Adam Rapp Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

  Adam Rapp

  Character, Writing, Gun

• I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him. When I write, that takes over and I can't do anything else. There's something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up. I've lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.

  Adam Rapp

  Dog, Fall, Writing

• One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.

  Adam Rapp

  Writing, Play, People

• A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

  Adam Rapp

  Writing, Typical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

• When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot.

  Adam Rapp

  Writing

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

• It's been hard for me to not write, and that's the only process I can speak to I guess, it's so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.

  Adam Rapp

  Writing, Needs, Sometimes

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

• When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused. But when I'm writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I'm just impossible to get in touch with, and I don't spend time with friends.

  Adam Rapp

  Writing, World, Different

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

• Man, that's the only kind of book I like – one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.

  Adam Rapp

  Real, Book, Writing

  Adam Rapp (2011). “Under the Wolf, Under the Dog”, p.117, Candlewick Press

• I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes, I'll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.

  Adam Rapp

  Couple, Writing, Games

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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