I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with them. Then at some point, it's time to get them out of the house. You can only live with someone like Dr. Georgeous Teitelbaum from THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG for so long, and then it's time for her to go. But it is very like having the company of these people and trying to craft them in some way into a story.
Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing y… - Wendy Wasserstein
Sloth is the fastest-growing lifestyle movement in the world, and that's because it is completely doable. If you embrace sloth, it's the last thing y…
- Wendy Wasserstein
The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain. - Wendy Wasserstein
The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behin… - Wendy Wasserstein
Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behin…
Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen. - Wendy Wasserstein
Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.
anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to … - Wendy Wasserstein
anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to …
The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth. - Wendy Wasserstein
The struggle to be considered a grown-up begins, I believe, shortly after birth.
I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own genera… - Wendy Wasserstein
I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own genera…
The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief in potential gives each of … - Wendy Wasserstein
The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief in potential gives each of …
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married a… - Wendy Wasserstein
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married a…
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