“You write things in different states of mind. After a long day of writing, once you sleep on a story, that next morning isn’t the same as when you were engaged the previous night. You look at it later and realize it isn’t at all how you imagined it to be. So when you write a play ten years ago, and…”— Sam Shepard, sam-shepard.comTagged: Wake Up With New Eyes, Same Story Over And Over Again, The Kernel Evolves And Unfolds, Constant Shedding, Creative Workflow Experiences
“You have to take the plunge. It’s easy to talk about the process, but it’s a confrontation. You’re confronting a blank page. It’s like drawing. You stare at a blank canvas and it goes from itself. You can call it a process, but you’re studying where this inspiration comes from. I don’t even have a s…”— Sam Shepard, sam-shepard.comTagged: Writing & Expression, Writing Processes, Against Routine, Jump Into It!, Writing
“I’m not interested in borders so much as I like putting things together.”— Sam Shepard, sam-shepard.comTagged: Connecting, Openness