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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.

Adam Rapp

When I’m directing, I’m pretty much not writing, but when I’m not directing I am writing a lot.
ADAM RAPP

Directing Lot Much Pretty Writing
It’s been hard for me to not write, and that’s the only process I can speak to I guess, it’s so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
ADAM RAPP

Guess Hard Need Process Sometimes Speak Write Writing
You can’t run forever.
ADAM RAPP

Forever Run Running Sky
I feel that I’d rather know an actors’ work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I’ll see them in something and I’ll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.
ADAM RAPP

Actor Along Coffee Down Instinct Shape Sit Way Work
The scent goes right to your stomach.
ADAM RAPP

Goes Right Scent Stomach
When I write, that takes over and I can’t do anything else.
ADAM RAPP

Anything Else Over Take Write
It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.
ADAM RAPP

Answer Asked People Process Schedule Strange
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.
ADAM RAPP

Beacon Candle Expire Grief Heart Lighthouse Rain System Temperature
I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest.
ADAM RAPP

Anand Thakur
I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
ADAM RAPP

Compulsive Dog Fall Fast Obsessive Writing
When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
ADAM RAPP

House Inside Nothing Oatmeal Smell Stood Stranger
The same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn’t a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they’re not in the sky
ADAM RAPP

Blackbird Flying Hear Playing Radio Sky Song
Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
ADAM RAPP

Deep Doctor Found Inside Machine Somewhere
If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I’d have someone enter with a machine gun.
ADAM RAPP

Enter Flash Gun Machine Someone Tried
I don’t know where the characters are going to go or what’s going to happen.
ADAM RAPP

Character Gun Happen Writing
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.
ADAM RAPP

Highway Maker North Pavement Quit Road Sky Turn

One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave.

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