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Sarah Ruhl Biography

Sarah Ruhl (born January 24, 1974) is an American playwright, professor, and essayist. Among her most popular plays are Eurydice (2003), The Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009). She has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a distinguished American playwright in mid-career. Two of her plays have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and she received a nomination for Tony Award for Best Play.

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We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

Exist, Partners, Race, Relation, World

Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

Length, Lie, Lying, Sadness, Stars, Time

I would never be essentialist about sexuality and structure, but I do think there's a way in which this male-arc has been talked about as the only structure, and kind of a stand-in for even the word structure, instead of looking at other forms.

Kind, Males, Talked, Thinking, Way

In America I think it's much more full of disruption culturally; it's much more mysterious how we inherit culture here. We grab it where we can find it - we're insatiable - and there can be a sense here that it's not available to you as readily as it is in other cultures.

America, Disruption, Insatiable, Other Cultures, Think, Thinking

I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

Childhood, Everyone, Horrible, People, Play, Subjectively

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

Children, Culture, Hate, Kids, Life, Privilege

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

Enough, Good, Good Enough, Paint, Portraits, Used

I think theatre is a democratic act and I think writing a play is not a democratic act. I think we should give writers more leeway and space to write the thing they want to write, and then we should produce the play, multiple times, and let them re-write it.

Act, Give, Play, Think, Thinking, Writing

I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience member and a play - just by the nature of it being an object that you can have in bed with you and that you can keep and page through.

Book, Object, Play, Relationship, Think, Thinking

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

Insane, Interviews, Reviews, Think, Thinking, Word

Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. . . . It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

Art, Bridges, Gaps, Time, Way

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.

Artist, Beautiful, Head, Love, Moon, Rising

What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when I need to be at home writing or with my kids, I go home.

Home, Kids, Writer, Writing

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

Amazing, Culture, Theatre, Writing

I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent, one must not think of life as an intrusion. At the end of the day, writing has very little to do with writing, and much to do with life. And life, by definition, is not an intrusion.

Day, Fact, Life, Parent, Thinking, Writing

I think a person has to believe in something, or search out some kind of faith; otherwise life is empty, nothing. How can you live not knowing why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. . . Either you know why you live, or it's all small, unnecessary bits.

Believe, Children, Faith, Life, Stars

Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.

Catharsis, Childhood, Excavated, Wounds

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

Aesthetic, Airtight, Dead, Defense

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

Daughter, Daughters, Mother, Stop, Wedding, Women

Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability to describe them, we've substituted our inarticulateness for saying that there's one and only one structure.

Ability, Describe, Make, Play, Thinking, Way

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