It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.
ADAM RAPPBut when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
More Adam Rapp Quotes
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Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
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You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
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I know that they want certain things and they’re in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that.
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There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
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I think, for me, when I direct my own work it’s just an extension of the authorship.
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I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
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It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
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In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
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I know that something inevitable will happen.
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I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.
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More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
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Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
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I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important.
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