black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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 Rapp

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I’ve lived here for sixteen years.
ADAM RAPP

Cheese Country Cow Drinking Hamburger Helper Look Macroni Milk Year
I find that more and more I’m trying to entertain myself when I’m working, because I know the work’s going to go to a horrible place.
ADAM RAPP

Entertain Horrible Know More Myself Trying Working
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.
ADAM RAPP

Draft First Gallops Long Period Tend Until Write
Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity.
ADAM RAPP

Bowel Grow Humidity Liver Settle Snow Thick
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
ADAM RAPP

Always Count Country Cutting Leg Time
I won’t eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him.
ADAM RAPP

Dog Eat Forget Laundry Now Remember Right Walk
We’re so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.
ADAM RAPP

Designed Destroy Distracted Faster Happen Now Quicker
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible
ADAM RAPP

Couple Game More Possible Three Try Two Writing
When it’s just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Behaving Couple Room Scene
Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs.
ADAM RAPP

Congeal Ice Lung Spiderweb Stomach
I think I’m a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge.
ADAM RAPP

Daunted Huge Little Machinery Play Really Thinking
My life has been in shambles, like my personal relationships, my laundry, paying bills now I have someone who pays my bills and it’s always been a challenge because it overwhelms me.
ADAM RAPP

Bill Challenge Laundry Pay Paying Personal Relationship Shambles
Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town.
ADAM RAPP

Criticism Distributed Really Town Unevenly
I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn’t intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
ADAM RAPP

Anything Else Over Take Write
You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.
ADAM RAPP

Develop Dog Feeling Girl Left Like Place

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Adam Rapp Quotes