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You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."
— John Guare
You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.
— John Guare
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
— John Guare
I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.
— John Guare
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.
— John Guare
You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.
— John Guare
The Atlantic Ocean was something then.
— John Guare
You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.
— John Guare
There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.
— John Guare
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting:
Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B.
Knock Knock.
Enter Character B. — John Guare
Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B.
Knock Knock.
Enter Character B. — John Guare
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
— John Guare
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
— John Guare
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random.
— John Guare
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.
— John Guare
We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.
— John Guare