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Sam Shepard Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“I’m not interested in borders so much as I like putting things together.”
— Sam Shepard, Interview at Cherry Lane Theater in NYC
Tagged: Connecting, Openness
“The stories my characters tell are stories that are always unfinished, always imagistic —having to do with recalling experiences through a certain kind of vision.”
— Sam Shepard, Myths, Dreams, Realities- Sam Shepard's America
Tagged: Writing Plays
“The thing about American writers is that as a group they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.”
— Sam Shepard, Sam Shepard: 'America is on its way out as a culture'
“Alcoholism is an insidious disease; until I confronted it I wasn’t aware that it was creeping up on me. I finally did AA in the hardcore down on Pico Boulevard. I said, ‘Don’t put me in with Elton John or anything, just throw me to the lions.’”
— Sam Shepard, Sam Shepard, The Art of Theater No. 12
Tagged: Alcoholism, Drinking, Cold Turkey
“You have to take the plunge. It’s easy to talk about the process, but it’s a confrontation. You’re confronting a blank page. It’s like drawing. You stare at a blank canvas and it goes from itself. You can call it a process, but you’re studying where this inspiration comes from. I don’t even have a specific time I write.”
— Sam Shepard, Interview at Cherry Lane Theater in NYC
Tagged: Writing & Expression, Writing Processes, Against Routine, Jump Into It!, Writing
“The California I knew, old rancho California, is gone. It just doesn’t exist, except maybe in little pockets. I lived on the edge of the Mojave Desert, an area that used to be farm country. There were all these fresh-produce stands with avocados and date palms. You could get a dozen artichokes for a buck or something. Totally wiped out now.”
— Sam Shepard, Sam Shepard, The Art of Theater No. 12
Tagged: California, America's Changing Landscape
“You write things in different states of mind. After a long day of writing, once you sleep on a story, that next morning isn’t the same as when you were engaged the previous night. You look at it later and realize it isn’t at all how you imagined it to be. So when you write a play ten years ago, and then come back to it, you’re a different person. So I think, why not rewrite it in that new light?”
— Sam Shepard, Interview at Cherry Lane Theater in NYC
Tagged: Wake Up With New Eyes, Same Story Over And Over Again, The Kernel Evolves And Unfolds, Constant Shedding, Creative Workflow Experiences, Over and Over Again
“Every condition I was in seemed like it could be a play. Everything seemed like a possible play. It was also a bit scary. I mean, people talk about the 1960s in a nostalgic way, but to me it was terrifying. People were getting assassinated. There was Vietnam. There were race riots. It felt like everything was going to get blown up sky-high. It didn’t feel like flower power. It felt like Armageddon.”
— Sam Shepard, Interview magazine October 2011 Sam Shepard
Tagged: The 1960s
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