I couldn't possibly write 'Next to Normal,' but God, I can weep and watch 'Next to Normal' five times. — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
“I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere,… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Sometimes a line enters your head, and you're so grateful for it. You go online to check to see if anyone wrote… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the 'I'm a Fraud' phase. You go through the… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere,… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Tuesdays and Thursdays, I didn't do any press, I didn't do any meetings, I just wrote all day, 'cause I'd meet, via… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
“How do you write like tomorrow won’t arrive? How do you write like you need it to survive? How do you write… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share
What's incredible about 'Hamilton,' and the reason you can't get a ticket, is because everyone's responding to it. Everyone is seeing a bit of… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share
I think I started writing because no one had ever told me you can write about the things you know in a musical. They… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share
I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share
I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share
“If it takes fighting a way for us to meet, it will have been worth it.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share
I got to fall in love. I got to win a war. I got to write words that inspired a nation. — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share
“When you smile, you knock me out, I fall apart And I thought I was so smart” — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share
You know what's a great way of tricking people into thinking you're a genius? Write a show about geniuses! — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share
It's hard to pick. I mean, I think the one that is most emblematic of the collaboration that occurred is "We Know The Way."… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share
“I stop wasting time on tears I live another fifty years It's not enough” — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share
I made a movie when I was 15 years old with all my friends. This is when IMDb was a little more lax with… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share
I got the job [in Moana], and the next day I was on a plane to New Zealand, where the rest of the team… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share
