Terrence McNally Quotes

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.

Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In a surprising twist, relentless connection leads to a new solitude.

I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.

In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.

I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.