Paula Vogel Quotes

• Theater is perhaps one of the few places left where we are in a dialogue right now. Everything has become so partisan, and the rhetoric has become so heated, that conversation is almost impossible.

  Paula Vogel

  Impossible, Theater, Conversation

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• Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

  Paula Vogel

  Art, Art Is, Subjects

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• I want to seduce the audience. If they can go along for a ride they wouldn't ordinarily take, or don't even know they're taking, then they might see highly charged political issues in a new and unexpected way. . . . The theatre is now so afraid to face its social demons that we've given that responsibility over to film. But it will always be harder to deal with certain issues in the theatre. The live event - being watched by people as we watch - makes it seem all the more dangerous.

  Paula Vogel

  Responsibility, Issues, People

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• In art as in life, some things need no translation.

  Paula Vogel

  Art, Needs, Translations

  Paula Vogel (1992). “The Baltimore Waltz”, p.24, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue I'm bothered about. I only write about things that directly impact my life. When I write, there's a pain that I have to reach, and a release I have to work toward for myself. So it's really a question of the particular emotional circumstance that I want to express, a character that appears, a moment in time, and then I write the play backwards.

  Paula Vogel

  Pain, Writing, Character

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• Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.

  Paula Vogel

  Theatre, Calling, Process

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• My own work has been influenced by my years of teaching in that it's very hard for me to be cynical. When you're working with emerging, brilliant talent, you have to believe in the future. It makes me hungry, as a 65-year-old. I'm not thinking about the time that is behind me. I'm thinking of these people that I watch to catch up with and be in their company.

  Paula Vogel

  Believe, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: variety.com

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• This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we become writers in exile, where what we write is the only link across distance and time…I became a Maryland writer because the community of Juneau took me in.

  Paula Vogel

  Memories, Distance, Writing

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