13 Quotes by David Rabe

Murderers don't even know that murder happens.

Eddie: You don’t have any feelings at all. Phil: I don’t have your feelings, Eddie; that’s all. I have my own, they get me by.

There’s little back roads and little towns sometimes I never heard of them. I start to expect the gas station attendants to know me when I arrive. I get excited that I’ve been there before. I want them to welcome me. I’m disappointed when they don’t. Something that I don’t want to be true starts lookin’ like it’s al that’s true only I don’t know what it is. No. No. I need my marriage. I come here to tell you. I got to stay married. I’m lost without her.

Often my characters don't know what the issues of the play are. They think they're doing one thing, but something else is actually orchestrating their lives.

I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is demanded, but there are very few teams.

Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

Sometimes it's learning how the play wants to function rather than imposing something on it. For me, that's the thrill in directing.

There's no demand for a body of work, though writers will be criticized for not having produced one.