“It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.” YearsHardEnoughSeemsViewsPlansEveningBehave Author:Wallace Shawn
“I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.” ThinkingWritingYearsPersonsPlayOpinionParticularMonthsHigherAverageMoodRelevantAverage PersonGood Mood Author:Wallace Shawn
“I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.” PeopleYearsHas BeensBirthExpectedVanityVain Author:Wallace Shawn
“I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.” KnowsNeedsWritingYearsFirstsPlayWould BeAgeFoundIndividualViewsImagineYears AgoPoint Of ViewFantasticReliefSignalsPlaywright Author:Wallace Shawn
“If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.” IfsGivingYearsEndsEffortPrinciplesMoralityDemandMy FriendsRelationRegardBehaveCoincidenceMiraculousPeasantsCambodia Book:Aunt Dan and Lemon: A Play Source: Aunt Dan and Lemon: A Play
“I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later. My technique could be compared to having a large canvas and coming in every day and putting a dot on it somewhere, and after several years - literally - I begin to say, That reminds me of an elephant, so I think I'll make it one.” ThinkingWritingYearsFirstsIdeasPlayCome UpFinishedTechniqueCraftsCanvasElephantsDots Author:Wallace Shawn
