Horton Foote Quotes

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• I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They…
• Writing is the thing that props me up.
• When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid
• You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to working.
• But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing…
• If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.
• I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.
• A lot of writing is thinking.
• In New York, there are a lot of plays to see, and I try to see as many as I can.
• My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for…

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