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Horton Foote Quotes

American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1916), Death: 4-3-2009
1.
I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.
Horton Foote

2.
But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos.
Horton Foote

3.
If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.
Horton Foote

4.
I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.
Horton Foote

5.
When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid
Horton Foote

Similar Authors: William Shakespeare Oscar Wilde George Bernard Shaw Winston Churchill Leo Tolstoy Ray Bradbury Will Rogers Robert A. Heinlein Honore de Balzac Lord Byron Douglas Adams W. Somerset Maugham Robert Frost Percy Bysshe Shelley Anton Chekhov
6.
I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.
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7.
You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to working.
Horton Foote

8.
Writing is the thing that props me up.
Horton Foote