Marsha Norman Heart Quotations

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.

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.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.