I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

- Terrence Mcnally

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that…

- Terrence Mcnally

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.

- Terrence Mcnally

Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In a surprising twi…

- Terrence Mcnally

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

- Terrence Mcnally

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

- Terrence Mcnally

Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be…

- Terrence Mcnally

Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I …

- Terrence Mcnally

Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

- Terrence Mcnally