I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough. Sarah Ruhl More Quotes by Sarah Ruhl More Quotes From Sarah Ruhl I think theatre is a democratic act and I think writing a play is not a democratic act. I think we should give writers more leeway and space to write the thing they want to write, and then we should produce the play, multiple times, and let them re-write it. Sarah Ruhl play writing thinking I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding. Sarah Ruhl would-be people interesting I would never be essentialist about sexuality and structure, but I do think there's a way in which this male-arc has been talked about as the only structure, and kind of a stand-in for even the word structure, instead of looking at other forms. Sarah Ruhl males way thinking I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible. Sarah Ruhl invisible certain age I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure in the task. If you don't, you will drive yourself off a cliff because your fortunes will rise and fall, and if you identify too closely with that, you really will go insane. Sarah Ruhl expectations fall thinking I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane. Sarah Ruhl interviews insane thinking No one likes kids. We say we do, and we take pictures of pregnant women for People Magazine, but really they're commodities - we hate them around, we hate them on airplanes, we consider them a grand imposition and almost a style choice. Sarah Ruhl airplane hate kids It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture. Sarah Ruhl hate kids children I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience member and a play - just by the nature of it being an object that you can have in bed with you and that you can keep and page through. Sarah Ruhl play book thinking
