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Top 30 Marsha Norman Quotes (2025 Update)

Marsha Norman Quote: “Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.”

1. “Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.”

2. “Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.”

3. “Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.”

4. “Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “Write about the thing that frightens you most.”

5. “Write about the thing that frightens you most.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn’t have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.”

6. “There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn’t have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “Family is just accident, Jessie. It’s nothing personal, hon. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.”

7. “Family is just accident, Jessie. It’s nothing personal, hon. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has to clean it up, and that only if it is cleaned up can we hope to start over, and get better.”

8. “We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has to clean it up, and that only if it is cleaned up can we hope to start over, and get better.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “I’m just not having a very good time and I don’t have any reason to think it’ll get anything but worse. I’m tired. I’m hurt. I’m sad. I feel used.”

9. “I’m just not having a very good time and I don’t have any reason to think it’ll get anything but worse. I’m tired. I’m hurt. I’m sad. I feel used.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “If someone wants to say ‘I love you’ in a straight play, they say it, and then it’s the other person’s turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.”

10. “If someone wants to say ‘I love you’ in a straight play, they say it, and then it’s the other person’s turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.”

11. “People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.”

12. “Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.”

13. “When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.”

14. “At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “Success is always something that you have to recover from.”

15. “Success is always something that you have to recover from.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “I never said I knew much. How was I supposed to learn anything living out here? I didn’t know enough to do half the things I did in my life. Things happen. You do what you can about them and you see what happens next.”

16. “I never said I knew much. How was I supposed to learn anything living out here? I didn’t know enough to do half the things I did in my life. Things happen. You do what you can about them and you see what happens next.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “No. You can’t. And I can’t do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there’s nothing on I want to listen to. It’s all I really have that belongs to me and I’m going to say what happens to it. And it’s going to stop. And I’m going to stop it. So. Let’s just have a good time.”

17. “No. You can’t. And I can’t do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there’s nothing on I want to listen to. It’s all I really have that belongs to me and I’m going to say what happens to it. And it’s going to stop. And I’m going to stop it. So. Let’s just have a good time.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.”

18. “The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.”

19. “I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.”

20. “People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “What’s so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you’re going to get your embarrassing old body back?”

21. “What’s so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you’re going to get your embarrassing old body back?”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “How can I get up everyday knowing you had to kill yourself to make it stop hurting and I was here all the time and I never even saw it. And then you gave me this chance to make it better, convince you to stay alive and I couldn’t do it. How can I live with myself after this, Jessie?”

22. “How can I get up everyday knowing you had to kill yourself to make it stop hurting and I was here all the time and I never even saw it. And then you gave me this chance to make it better, convince you to stay alive and I couldn’t do it. How can I live with myself after this, Jessie?”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women – especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.”

23. “There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women – especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “I feel that I speak the musical language.”

24. “I feel that I speak the musical language.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “I’m who I was waiting for. I didn’t make it.”

25. “I’m who I was waiting for. I didn’t make it.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.”

26. “If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “In the theater, when people hear that you’re writing a play, they want to know what it’s all about, whether there’s a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you’re really ready to have company.”

27. “In the theater, when people hear that you’re writing a play, they want to know what it’s all about, whether there’s a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you’re really ready to have company.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.”

28. “I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “Why do you have to know so much about things, Jessie? There’s just not that much to things that I could ever see.”

29. “Why do you have to know so much about things, Jessie? There’s just not that much to things that I could ever see.”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “I didn’t know! I was here with you all the time. How could I know you were so alone?”

30. “I didn’t know! I was here with you all the time. How could I know you were so alone?”

— Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman Quote: “That’s what this is about. It’s somebody I lost, all right, it’s my own self. Who I never was. Or who I tried to be and never got there. Somebody I waited for who never came. And never will.”

31. “That’s what this is about. It’s somebody I lost, all right, it’s my own self. Who I never was. Or who I tried to be and never got there. Somebody I waited for who never came. And never will.”

— Marsha Norman

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