If someone wants to say ‘I love you’ in a straight play, they say it, and then it’s the other person’s turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like. Marsha Norman Read Quote
Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write. Marsha Norman Read Quote
People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts. Marsha Norman Read Quote
What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, ‘What Can We Do?’ Marsha Norman Read Quote
If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright. Marsha Norman Read Quote
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.’ Marsha Norman Read Quote
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it. Marsha Norman Read Quote
