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I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

Beth Henley

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And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.

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And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won’t have to bother doing it themselves.
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Creating
I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.

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I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
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Restless
That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you’ll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
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Inclination
It’s really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don’t get in trouble.

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It’s really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don’t get in trouble.
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I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I’d rather write plays.
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But here’s the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
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Copyright Novelists Poets
Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

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Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.
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It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
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Enlightening Playwright
I’m very into the first production of the show.

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I’m very into the first production of the show.
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Firsts Production
I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.
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Phones Talking
It’s called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn’t realize what a rage I was in.
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Sister Winter Years
What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn’t you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

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What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn’t you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.
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Long
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
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Louisiana Lucky
I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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Divorced Own Wretchedness
The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

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The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
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Glorious
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.

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I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
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Raise Theatre

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

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