Lynn Nottage Quotes

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.

I try my best to find variety in what I'm doing, but there's a lot out there that's the same.

Honestly, as a director, at least for me, if I start doing the same thing over and over again, I'm going to get bored really quickly.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

I wouldn't want to make the same film every time. I get easily bored.

Uniformity is not very interesting or sustainable - it's boring.

The hardest part is not to repeat yourself. I don't really believe my core obsessions are going to change, but you need to look for ways to express them that are different. The main reason for doing that is not to bore yourself, and obviously, I don't want to bore readers.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

I don't want to repeat myself.

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

I don't like the same old thing all the time.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself.

I guess I get bored easily, and thank God. I don't want to all my life pound only the same key, although some artists do it very effectively. I'm not trying to denigrate anybody.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

You don't want to play the same role twice.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.