Top 6 Horton Foote Quotes (2025 Update)

Horton Foote Quote: “Writing is the thing that props me up.”

1. “Writing is the thing that props me up.”

2. “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.”

— Horton Foote

3. “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.”

— Horton Foote

4. “When you’re a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don’t get paid.”

— Horton Foote

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

— Horton Foote

6. “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.”

— Horton Foote

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