"You have to watch out with my plays.……" — Horton Foote
"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."
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10 Quotes by Horton Foote
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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…
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Writing is the thing that props me up.
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When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid
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But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened…
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If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.
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I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to…
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A lot of writing is thinking.
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In New York, there are a lot of plays to see, and I try to see as many as I…
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My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was…
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