Donald Margulies Quotes

#1. Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.

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#2. Love ya" is the coward's way of saying "I love you.

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#3. You know, Granna, going around saying how you don't watch TV... It's not even pretentious anymore... it's just plain out of it.

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#4. Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write it, then we'll talk about it.

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#5. Who even *heard* of gluten till a few years ago?

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#6. Here's a bit of advice... When a woman invites you into her home... and you don't seduce her... don't seduce another woman, darling, certainly not under the same roof. It's bad manners - ungallant to say the least,

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#7. I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me.

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#8. People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as truthfully as I can and hope, no matter their gender, that their humanity comes through.

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