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Marsha Norman quotes: If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

Marsha Norman quotes: I hate milk. Coats your throat as bad as okra. Something just downright disgusting about it.

I hate milk. Coats your throat as bad as okra. Something just downright disgusting about it.

Marsha Norman quotes: Success is always something that you have to recover from.

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

Marsha Norman quotes: When 'night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

When 'night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

Marsha Norman quotes: People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

Marsha Norman quotes: Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Marsha Norman quotes: I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

Marsha Norman quotes: When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

Marsha Norman quotes: On the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

On the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

Marsha Norman quotes: People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

Marsha Norman quotes: At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

Marsha Norman quotes: Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

Marsha Norman quotes: Why do you have to know so much about things, Jessie? There's just not that much to things that I could ever see.

Why do you have to know so much about things, Jessie? There's just not that much to things that I could ever see.

Marsha Norman quotes: How could I love him, Jessie. I didn't have a thing he wanted.

How could I love him, Jessie. I didn't have a thing he wanted.

Marsha Norman quotes: Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

Marsha Norman quotes: I feel that I speak the musical language.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

Marsha Norman quotes: I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.

Marsha Norman quotes: Write about the thing that frightens you most.

Write about the thing that frightens you most.

Marsha Norman quotes: Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

Marsha Norman quotes: What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

Marsha Norman quotes: I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

Marsha Norman quotes: I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.

I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.

Marsha Norman quotes: Dreams are illustrations ... from the book your soul is writing about you.

Dreams are illustrations ... from the book your soul is writing about you.

Marsha Norman quotes: Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.