Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.
From Marsha Norman
I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.
I feel that I speak the musical language.
At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.
Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as 'night, Mother.'
When 'night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.
In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.
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