Quotes from Richard Greenberg

My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't poor. So, you know, the idea of not having a job, it would creep through. But she tried very hard to be subtle about it.

You do think, if you have your druthers, 'I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown'. But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.

The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays.

My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York.