Quotes by Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it’s about craftsmanship.

Art

Crafts

Writing

After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches – thoroughbred layup farms, actually – out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasnt far enough.

Couple

Fall

Father

All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won’t return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?

Drama

Father

Interesting

Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.

Disaster

Exciting

Being a writer is so great because you’re literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or wait for somebody else to make a decision about how to use you, with writing, you can do it anywhere, anytime you want. You don’t have to ask permission.

Decision

Waiting

Writing

Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything.

Notes

Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can’t be ultimately changed. It’s the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins.

Blood

Character

Running

Democracy’s a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it’s no longer democracy, is it? It’s something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

Democracy

May

Scare Tactics

Everyone wants a piece of land. It’s the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years. In less than that. Land is going up every day.

Car

Land

Years

Farm country — you know, hay, horses, cattle. It’s the ideal situation for me. I like the physical endeavors that go with the farm — cutting hay, cleaning out stalls, or building a barn. You go do that and then come back to the writing.

Country

Horse

Writing

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Acting

Actors

Adverbs

Alcohol

Alive

America

Apples

Art

Believe

Blood

Blown Away

Breeding

California

Car

Certain

Character

Country

Couple

Crafts

Culture

Cute

Dad

Dating

Decision

Democracy

Destiny

Dies

Different

Disaster

Disease

Division

Doe

Done

Dozen

Drama

Earning

Emptiness

Ends

Evil

Exciting

Eye

Fall

Fantasy

Father

Feel Better

Feelings

Fence

Firsts

Flower

Funny Things

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

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The Autobiography

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Quotes by Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

[Rewriting is] a whole other art form; it’s about craftsmanship.

After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches – thoroughbred layup farms, actually – out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasnt far enough.

Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.

Being a writer is so great because you’re literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or wait for somebody else to make a decision about how to use you, with writing, you can do it anywhere, anytime you want. You don’t have to ask permission.

Caryl Churchill is a writer of some note, but in the sack, she makes me explain everything.

Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can’t be ultimately changed. It’s the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins.

Democracy’s a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it’s no longer democracy, is it? It’s something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

Everyone wants a piece of land. It’s the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years. In less than that. Land is going up every day.

Farm country — you know, hay, horses, cattle. It’s the ideal situation for me. I like the physical endeavors that go with the farm — cutting hay, cleaning out stalls, or building a barn. You go do that and then come back to the writing.

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