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. 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

#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. My first mission is to take care of our troops. I take that mission very personally.

Tim Walz

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Lynn Nottage

#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.

Lynn Nottage

#11. 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.

Lynn Nottage

#12. 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.'

Lynn Nottage

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

Lynn Nottage

#14. 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

#15. It is difficult to admit that one is wrong. Particularly when one has been wrong for a very long time.

Fredrik Backman

#16. There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself, an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Antisthenes Pinto

#17. What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?

Jerry Seinfeld

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

Lynn Nottage

#19. 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

#20. Every instinct in me wants to text someone OMG, I've lost my phone! but how can I do that without a bloody phone?

Sophie Kinsella

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

Lynn Nottage

#22. 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