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title: "1 Hate Making Quotes By Annie Baker"
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> [For me, on every project, I realize that I've boxed myself into a corner, or that the play necessitates some sort of theatrical convention that I realize I hate while I'm making it. So then the next play is always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/for-me-on-every-project-i-realize-that-i-ve-boxed-myself-into-a/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-baker/)

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## More by Annie Baker

> [There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/there-are-certain-early-plays-of-mine-that-i-really-don-t-like-but-i/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-baker/)

> [If I think back to every rehearsal process for every play I've ever worked on, there's just so much crying at home. I barely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/if-i-think-back-to-every-rehearsal-process-for-every-play-i-ve-ever/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-baker/)

> [Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/film-can-express-things-that-computers-never-will-film-is-a-series-of/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-baker/)

> [“Lauren: Like how many people you're...like how many times your life is gonna totally change and then, like, start all over again? And you'll…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/lauren-like-how-many-people-you-re-like-how-many-times-your-life-is/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-baker/)

> [“I will say that meeting him was like walking out of a dark wood. He's not perfect and I'm not perfect and we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/i-will-say-that-meeting-him-was-like-walking-out-of-a-dark-wood-he-s/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/i-feel-like-there-s-an-obsession-with-pace-right-now-in-theater-with/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-baker/)

> [I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/i-don-t-enjoy-hearing-the-sound-of-my-voice-the-most-important-things/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/i-think-growing-up-in-a-small-town-the-kind-of-people-i-met-in-my/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-baker/)

> [I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on a daily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/i-feel-with-writing-so-much-of-the-time-i-don-t-know-how-to-tap-in/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/i-ended-up-becoming-a-playwright-because-you-can-be-grammatically/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-baker/)

> [I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/i-was-22-and-stopped-writing-plays-and-i-didn-t-start-again-until-i/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-baker/)

> [Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/writing-is-my-primary-way-of-expressing-myself/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-baker/)

> [For me, being a good creative writing teacher is actually kind of being a good therapist. The line is very porous - you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/for-me-being-a-good-creative-writing-teacher-is-actually-kind-of/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-baker/)

> [I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/i-m-really-trying-to-stop-setting-my-plays-in-this-one-fictional-town/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-baker/)

> [Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-baker/yeah-i-have-the-detail-obsessed-controlling-personality-of-a-novelist/)

[Annie Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-baker/)

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