Quotes by Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman

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.’

Mother

Night

Writing

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

Art

Culture

Generations

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

Heart

Play

Thoughtful

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

Dream

Inspirational

Life

During the day, our souls gather their … impressions of us, how our lives feel. … Our spirits collect these impressions, keep them together, like wisps of smoke in a bag. Then, when we’re asleep, our brains open up these bags of smoke … and take a look.

Brain

Soul

Together

Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.

Being Thankful

Family

Mean

I feel that I speak the musical language.

Language

Musical

Speak

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

Grew Up

Piano

Writing

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

Careers

Painful

Writing

I’m just not having a very good time and I don’t have any reason to think it’ll get anything but worse. I’m tired. I’m hurt. I’m sad. I feel used.

Hurt

Thinking

Tired

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Ask Me

Bed

Being Thankful

Block

Body

Bored

Brain

Careers

Color

Culture

Dream

Embarrassing

Enough

Family

Feel Better

Fighting

Generations

Get Better

Giving

Grew Up

Heart

Heaven

Hurt

Independent

Inspirational

Issues

Jesus

Jobs

Joy

Knowing

Language

Laughing

Life

Long

Love You

Mean

Men

Might

Mother

Musical

Night

Order

Painful

Painting

People

Piano

Play

Playwright

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Quotes by Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman

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.’

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

During the day, our souls gather their … impressions of us, how our lives feel. … Our spirits collect these impressions, keep them together, like wisps of smoke in a bag. Then, when we’re asleep, our brains open up these bags of smoke … and take a look.

Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

I’m just not having a very good time and I don’t have any reason to think it’ll get anything but worse. I’m tired. I’m hurt. I’m sad. I feel used.

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