Lynn Nottage Quotes

#1. There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D'Amour. Anything they've got going on, I'll go see.

Lucy Alibar

#2. I need a release from whatever I'm writing.

Lynn Nottage

#3. I'm a schizophrenic writer.

Lynn Nottage

#4. In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

Lynn Nottage

#5. I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.

Lynn Nottage

#6. I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.

Lynn Nottage

#7. Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

Lynn Nottage

#8. I'm surrounded by young people. I'm always now the oldest and the shortest person in the room.

Isabel Allende

#9. Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.

Lynn Nottage

#10. African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.

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#11. I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area.

Jesse Eisenberg

#12. Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.

William Wordsworth

#13. I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

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#14. I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

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#15. My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends.

Lynn Nottage

#16. There was a terrible danger in loving small, fragile things.

Gwen Cooper

#17. I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway.

Lynn Nottage

#18. In strange ways hard to know gods come to men.
Many a thing past hope they have fulfilled,
And what was asked for went another way.
A path we never thought to tread God found for us.
So this has come to pass.

Edith Hamilton

#19. I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will not only its moment to jump off but its direction. In that case I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist.

Albert Einstein

#20. Did you say something Macey?' I asked, but she cut me a look that could kill. She reached into her bag, ripped off a sliver of Evapopaper, and scribbled:
'Can we study tonight? (Tell anyone, and I'll kill you in you sleep!)

Ally Carter

#21. Life is on-going experiment. The moment the experiment ends, life ends.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

Hortense Calisher

#23. Just because it's a unique perspective doesn't mean it can't offer something universal.

Lynn Nottage

#24. If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.

Lynn Nottage

#25. Still the mind. Inhale peace. Let go of worries. Exhale stress. Notice the breath. Connect to all. Embrace calm.

Mary Davis

#26. A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

Lynn Nottage

#27. There are many different techniques and forms of meditation. The common element among these techniques is that the person takes time out from the daily pace of life to close their eyes and reflect on thoughts or images that create internal feelings of peace and relaxation.

Tim McCarthy

#28. Faith is knowing something that no-one else does.

Phil Pringle

#29. I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.

Lynn Nottage