Top 26 Quotes by Beth Henley

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.