"After I won the Pulitzer, there was..." - Quote by Marsha Norman
After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was to keep writing, keep working. But no one would produce anything of mine they didn't think would be as big as ''night, Mother.'
More by Marsha Norman
“We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of what it felt like to be alive in our time. That's what our job is as writers is to present that and create it. Our job as writers isn't to make as much money as we can. Our job is to create a record of this time. That's why if you leave out women and the stories of women, we failed at our mission. All of us. Men and women.”
“People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.”
“I feel that I speak the musical language.”
More on Success
“Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed.”
“People who accomplish great things work toward their objectives every day.”
“If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.”
More on Writing
“I am never much interested in the effects of what I write....I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two times out of three I know something about the reviewer, and in very few cases have I any respect for his judgments. Thus his praise, if he praises me, leaves me unmoved. I can't recall any review that has even influenced me in the slightest. I live in sort of a vacuum, and I suspect that most other writers do, too. It is hard to imagine one of the great ones paying any serious attention to contemporary opinion.”
“People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.”
“A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.”