Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be as truthful and specific as we can make it. The minute we think that… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They care about… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from. — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive,… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater. — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to turn out… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart. — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out. — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing. — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas. — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
