Katori Hall

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

I used to think people above me might get jealous because I wanted to do what they did. But no, people are much nicer than that.

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

I did do Broadway for a little less than a year and realized quickly I don't have a passion for it and, more importantly, I don't have a talent in it.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.