My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two worlds. And by those criteria, 'The Color Purple' is actually exactly the kind of story that makes for… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself. — Marsha Norman Copy Share
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write. — Marsha Norman Copy Share
During the day, our souls gather their ... impressions of us, how our lives feel. ... Our spirits collect these impressions, keep them together,… — Marsha Norman Copy Share
What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back? — Marsha Norman Copy Share
I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career. — Marsha Norman Copy Share
“...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the… — Marsha Norman Copy Share
Family is just accident… They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. — Marsha Norman Copy Share
What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for… — Marsha Norman Copy Share
There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women… — Marsha Norman Copy Share
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it. — Marsha Norman Copy Share
I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm… — Marsha Norman Copy Share
After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep… — Marsha Norman Copy Share
Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck. — Marsha Norman Copy Share
