“I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid, my fantasy profession was to be a novelist. But the thing about writing prose - and maybe great prose writers don't feel this way - but I always felt it was about choosing words. I was always like, "I have to choose the perfect word." And then it would kill me, and I would choose the wrong word or I would choose too many perfect words - I wrote really purple prose.” WayFeelsWritingReasonKidsFeltPerfectFantasyBecomingProfessionNovelistsProsePurpleKill MePlaywrightRight WordsWrong Words Author:Annie Baker
“I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. The whole imperfection of it suddenly felt freeing to me.” PeopleWellsSometimesWholeSpeakFeltFailingBecomingSucceedImperfectionAttemptingPlaywright Author:Annie Baker
“I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.” ThinkingFeelsAudienceBecomingRight NowTheaterWittyObsessionLoudPaceIrrelevantVery Witty Author:Annie Baker
