Tanya Saracho Quotes

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so maybe it will move somewhere. There's something about plays where you can feel that sense of artifice at any moment.

I'm a dramatist.

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.

I would like to write a play.

I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater.

The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I want to do better. I want to produce better stories. I want to do better plays.

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

I'm not a playwright.

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.