Marsha Norman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Marsha Norman quotes and sayings page 2 (77 year old dramatist). These are the last 8 out of 18 quotes we have for her.
“Success is always something that you have to recover from.”
“I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.”
“My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two worlds. And by those criteria, 'The Color Purple' is actually exactly the kind of story that makes for a great musical. Yes, it's got hard stuff in it, but so does 'Les Miserables' and 'Phantom of the Opera.'”
“What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'”
“Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.”
“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.”
“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.'”
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