“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
“If I were less lazy, when my play was published, I would go and rewrite everything for the reader. But I don't do that. What people are reading is just me trying to get the actors and directors to do something or think about something.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingPlayReadingActorsReaderDirectorsLazy Author:Annie Baker
“I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindStillsGrowing UpGrowingMetsTownsSmall TownGrowing Up In A Small Town Author:Annie Baker
“I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.” PeoplePlayHappensActorsLinesSilenceTalkingStageSlowingBetween The Lines Author:Annie Baker
