Lynn Nottage Quotes

United States, Playwright
November 2, 1964

Lynn Nottage (born November 2, 1964) is an American playwright whose work often deals with the lives of marginalized people. She is a professor of Playwriting at Columbia University.

Also known as Professional Wrestler

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

Lynn Nottage
- People
- Imagination
'Intimate Apparel' is a lyrical meditation on one woman's loneliness and desire. 'Fabulation' is a very fast-paced play of the MTV generation.

Lynn Nottage
- Desire
- Meditation

Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs.

Lynn Nottage
- Age
I am a storyteller by trade.

Lynn Nottage
Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again.

Lynn Nottage
There's never any ebb in human misery.

Lynn Nottage
Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations.

Lynn Nottage
- People