Thinking Quotes by Sarah Ruhl

Sarah Ruhl

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.

Book

Play

Thinking

Sarah Ruhl

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.

Insane

Interviews

Thinking

Sarah Ruhl

I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent, one must not think of life as an intrusion. At the end of the day, writing has very little to do with writing, and much to do with life. And life, by definition, is not an intrusion.

Parent

Thinking

Writing

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.

Play

Thinking

Writing

Sarah Ruhl

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.

Expectations

Fall

Thinking

Sarah Ruhl

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.

Males

Thinking

Way

Sarah Ruhl

In America I think it’s much more full of disruption culturally; it’s much more mysterious how we inherit culture here. We grab it where we can find it – we’re insatiable – and there can be a sense here that it’s not available to you as readily as it is in other cultures.

America

Other Cultures

Thinking

Sarah Ruhl

It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time – for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they’re raising children.

Children

Mother

Thinking

Sarah Ruhl

Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability to describe them, we’ve substituted our inarticulateness for saying that there’s one and only one structure.

Play

Thinking

Way

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Charlie Brooker

Joseph Badaracco

Harrison Salisbury

David Livingstone

Leroy Hood

Aesthetic

Age

Airplane

America

Art

Artist

Attachment

Baby

Beautiful

Being Sad

Believe

Book

Bridges

Catharsis

Century

Certain

Childhood

Children

Culture

Daughter

Defense

Directors

Expectations

Fall

Flower

Gaps

Good Enough

Hate

Home

Important

Insane

Interesting

Interviews

Invisible

Just Being

Kids

Love

Lying

Males

Mother

Other Cultures

Paint

Parent

Partners

People

Play

Portraits

Race

Roots

Sadness

Sitting

Sitting Down

Sleep

Stars

Theatre

Thinking

Way

Wedding

World

Would Be

Wounds

Writing

Years

Thinking Quotes by Sarah Ruhl

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In America I think it’s much more full of disruption culturally; it’s much more mysterious how we inherit culture here. We grab it where we can find it – we’re insatiable – and there can be a sense here that it’s not available to you as readily as it is in other cultures.

It was important to me that people know that you can make plays and raise children at the same time – for other mothers, for other parents, for other women considering having children and who want to be working and thinking and contemplating and making things while they’re raising children.

Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability to describe them, we’ve substituted our inarticulateness for saying that there’s one and only one structure.

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