Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. Marsha Norman More Quotes by Marsha Norman More Quotes From Marsha Norman There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets. Marsha Norman playartthinking People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts. Marsha Norman heartsongpeople 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. Marsha Norman tiredhurtthinking I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career. Marsha Norman careerspainfulwriting The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart. Marsha Norman prayerheartwriting What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back? Marsha Norman embarrassingbodyheaven People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it. Marsha Norman mightpeoplethinking When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with. Marsha Norman fightingenoughlong 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.' Marsha Norman motherwritingnight I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals. Marsha Norman pianogrew-upwriting When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway. Marsha Norman mothernightlong Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me. Marsha Norman ask-mesuicidejesus If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright. Marsha Norman playwrightvisionwould-be 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?' Marsha Norman womenhopechildrenworld Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck. Marsha Norman neckyourthinkyou
