Lanford Wilson Quotes

• If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again.

  Lanford Wilson

  Dream, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

  Lanford Wilson (1994). “Four Short Plays by Lanford Wilson”, p.11, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers.

  Lanford Wilson

  Writing, Color, People

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• Nobody's safe around a writer.

  Lanford Wilson

  Safe

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• Lots of my friends and family belong to churches, and some of them are part of the so-called Christian Right. In this preacher, I wanted to show a good man struggling to reconcile his commitment to the community with the political agenda of his church. He does not see that as a dilemma, but I do.

  Lanford Wilson

  Christian, Struggle, Commitment

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• At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone. . . . Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one. . . . You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation.

  Lanford Wilson

  Hate, Drama, Writing

  "The Critic On My Shoulder" by Lanford Wilson, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1996.

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• I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.

  Lanford Wilson

  September 11, Events, September

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• I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

  Lanford Wilson

  Atoms, Bombs, Firsts

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• But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

  Lanford Wilson

  Blow, Cities, Lasts

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