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Horton Foote Quotes

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.

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.

People, World, Faces

Horton Foote (1989). “Cousins ; And, The Death of Papa: The Final Two Plays of The Orphans' Home Cycle”, p.13, Grove Press

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.

Writing, Past, Thinking

When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid

Writing, Stories, Paid

If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.

Writing, Lessons, Firsts

"Lucky Man" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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.

Thinking, Play, Watches

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.

People, Mind, Trying

Horton Foote (1989). “Cousins ; And, The Death of Papa: The Final Two Plays of The Orphans' Home Cycle”, p.19, Grove Press

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

Strong, Oral Tradition, Tradition

Writing is the thing that props me up.

Writing, Props

"His Kind of Town" by Alex Witchel, www.nytimes.com. August 19, 2007.

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