Marsha Norman

“We think we have solved a problem when we have found a fool to blame.”

“Plays are not about the events, but about how people respond to them.”

“I'm interested in the things that people can't say.”

“Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.”

“It's a terrifying thing, to have a dream come true.”

“Secrets are the way you know you even have a family.”

“The theater is a spiritual and social X-ray of its time.”

“The point of the craft is to give yourself a chance to be surprised.”

“I have trouble with the term 'women's work' because I have always worked and my mother always worked and my grandmother always worked.”

“Everything you need to know is right there, in the language of the play.”

“Myths are the stories we tell to strangers.”

“I think the job of a writer is to be a witness.”

“Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's a cultural function. It's how we know who we are and where we are.”

“I feel that the truth is simply the best vaccination against the chaos of the world.”