I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. The whole imperfection of it suddenly felt freeing to me. Annie Baker More Quotes by Annie Baker More Quotes From Annie Baker I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing. Annie Baker college play writing I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant. Annie Baker pace witty thinking Writing is my primary way of expressing myself. Annie Baker primaries writing way I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont. Annie Baker really town stop trying