Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write 'August Osage County.' It helps me to write any play that I'm working on because I think one of the things I do well is write good roles for actors. ”

I don't think there's any substitute for experience. ”

Fame and fortune and the interstate is great and fun, but it ain't life. ”

Having children has been one of the biggest things that has happened to me in my life. ”

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life. ”

One of my main wishes in wanting to write about my mother was to explore the impact of her death on my life, explore our relationship, think about the different versions of myself that I was with and without her. I also had the really strong wish to bring her to life for my children, who were born after she was gone. ”

A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea. ”

I had to say to myself, 'I haven't written enough about blackness, yet it's part of my consciousness and my lived experience.' I had to get over that anxiety of 'I haven't done this before.' ”

What excites me is that I'm an ambassador for poetry, which is something that I wholeheartedly believe in and that has been an anchor and a force of stability and consolation throughout my life. I think that's good news. ”

When we started making 'Where You Live', I bought a bunch of Polaroid cameras in so that people could record the experience. Some of those pictures are in the CD sleeve. ”