Book Quote by Tracy Letts

'Killer Joe' provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect director to shepherd a group of actors who…

— Tracy Letts

'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theater's Lab - a 40 seat black box theater…

— Tracy Letts

“VIOLET: Oh, horseshit, horeshit, let's all say horseshit. Say horseshit, Bill. BILL: Horseshit.”

— Tracy Letts

The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images…

— Tracy Letts

I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our theater know…

— Tracy Letts

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.

— Tracy Letts

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

— Tracy Letts

“You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but…

— Tracy Letts

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

— Tracy Letts

Time wounds all heals.

— Tracy Letts

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

— Tracy Letts

I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a…

— Tracy Letts