Sarah Ruhl

“I hate parties. And a wedding is the biggest party of all. All the guests arrived and Orpheus is taking a shower.…

— Sarah Ruhl

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for…

— Sarah Ruhl

“the theater is one of the few places left in the bright and noisy world where we sit in the quiet dark…

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I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between…

— Sarah Ruhl

“When you read a novel, it seems that everything is clear, trite and understandable. But when you yourself fall in love, you…

— Sarah Ruhl

“When you snatch happiness in little bits, fits and starts, and lose it, like me, you become coarse, little by little, you…

— Sarah Ruhl

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

— Sarah Ruhl

Attachment parenting is this theory that if you wear your baby around and you sleep with your baby and you breast-feed for…

— Sarah Ruhl

We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

— Sarah Ruhl

“Play itself is a primary process, not a luxury, not a hobby, but something all children must do to survive into adulthood.”

— Sarah Ruhl

“Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what…

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“What silly little things sometimes take on meaning in life, suddenly, out of nowhere. And you know they're little nothings, and you…

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Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

— Sarah Ruhl

“Don't make a wall of glass between your play and the people watching. Don't forget they were once children, who enjoyed being…

— Sarah Ruhl

Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our…

— Sarah Ruhl

I would never be essentialist about sexuality and structure, but I do think there's a way in which this male-arc has been…

— Sarah Ruhl

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it…

— Sarah Ruhl

“the theater is one of the few places left in the bright and noisy world where we sit in the quiet dark…

— Sarah Ruhl

“Oh, where is it, where did my past go, when I was young, happy and intelligent, when my dreams and thoughts had…

— Sarah Ruhl

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors…

— Sarah Ruhl

I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who…

— Sarah Ruhl

“Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what…

— Sarah Ruhl

“No, you're not. If you were really sorry, you wouldn't have done it. We do as we please, and then say we're…

— Sarah Ruhl

“There are jokes about breast surgeons. You know-- something like-- I've seen more breasts in this city than-- I don't know the…

— Sarah Ruhl

I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.

— Sarah Ruhl