Quotes by Horton Foote - Page 1

Writing is the thing that props me up.
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Props
Writing
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I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.
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Oral Tradition
Strong
Tradition
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If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.
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Firsts
Lessons
Writing
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When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid
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Paid
Stories
Writing
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I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.
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Mind
People
Trying
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I so earnestly believe that prayer can be helpful and guide you and protect you and inspire you. I mean, I'm in awe.
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Awe
Inspire
Prayer
Earnestly
Guide
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You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to working.
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Play
Thinking
Watches
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I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.
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Received
Reversed
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A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we control what we want to write about.
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Inherent
Inescapable
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I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again. You're at the mercy of whatever talent you have.
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Mercy
Almost Every Day
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Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place. It sounds a little pretentious, I know. But that's really what I set for myself.
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Moral
Pretentious
Spiritual
Sounds
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I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.
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Faces
People
World
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My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr.
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Brooks
Great Grandfather
Twenty Two
Mother Always Father
Albert
Named
Father Always Mother
Harriet
Horton
Paternal
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I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wouldn't rewrite years later. Tennessee Williams did that all the time, and it's distressing, because I'd like the play to be out there in its finished form.
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Distressing
Finished
Tennessee
Living Thing
Rewrite
Williams
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But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos.
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Past
Thinking
Writing
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My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it.
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According
Life Done Past
Life Me Long
Life Memory Me
Memory
Storytellers
Superior
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I have enormous respect for the human being because they're asked to take on a lot. And I don't think there's any easy solution. But I think the journey is what you have to finally be satisfied with, but not be afraid of the lessons one has to learn... it ends up as grace. And you grow; you find a way to continue.
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Journey
Enormous
Grace
Lessons
Satisfied
Solution
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I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it's a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.
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Be Careful
Careful
Complicated
Good Person
Humanity
Neighbor
Prayer
Superficial
Love Good Humanity
Discovered
Restored
Seem
To Love
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I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.
Horton Foote / Playwright
Awe
Dignity
Human Spirit
Quarters
Thrown
Life Believe World
Life Face Look
Deeply
Discourage
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