It’s very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it. Laura Wade Read Quote
I’m not very good at sticking at things if I can’t be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago. Laura Wade Read Quote
I’m not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent – which was careless because there’d be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one. Laura Wade Read Quote
Maybe if I’d had more direct contact with death, I wouldn’t find it so fascinating and I wouldn’t write about it so much. Laura Wade Read Quote
I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process? Laura Wade Read Quote
It’s not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it? Laura Wade Read Quote
I think it’s disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time. Laura Wade Read Quote
Your plays are always personal. You can’t help seeing yourself in the serial killer you’ve just written. But they get less specifically personal. Laura Wade Read Quote
I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was… appalling… always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did. Laura Wade Read Quote
