“I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I w...” — Annie Baker Quote

“I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.”

“Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.”

“I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.”

“I'm off the diet, but not the treadmill. I speak as someone who's attempted to lose weight and get fit thrice before in my life.”

“Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.”

“I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done.”