Literary Birthday – 10 May – Suzan-Lori Parks
Happy Birthday, Suzan-Lori Parks, born on 10 May 1963.
Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes
- Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.
- A play is a blueprint of an event: a way of creating and rewriting history through the medium of literature.
- People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it’s very hard because I’m frightened – not frightened of writing a bad play, although that happens often with me. I’m frightened of encountering the wilderness of my own spirit, which is always , no matter how many plays I write, a new and uncharted place. Every day when I sit down to write, I can’t remember how it’s done.
- Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.
- My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favourite places was the library.
- Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
- I don’t read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don’t know.
Suzan-Lori Parks is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. Her 2001 play Topdog/Underdog won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002. Parks’s plays include Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Venus, The America Play, and In the Blood. She also wrote the novel, Getting Mother’s Body. Parks’s plays are about race, family, and identity. She uses poetic words and humour to talk about serious ideas in a powerful way. notable accolades and awards include the prestigious Gish Prize for Excellence in the Arts, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is also a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
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