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You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've written is that of a woman. My men are, well, not quite worthless, but they are certainly weak, and that reflects the reality I grew up with and what I think has in a sense shaped me.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Affirmative Any Certainly Grew Me Men Plays Positive Quite Reality Reflects See Sense Shaped Strong Think Up Voice Weak Well Woman Worthless Written You I Think

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My essential identity is that of a writer.

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Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: About Africa Get Lives Obviously Other People Political Question Situation South South Africa Stories Telling You

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Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Creativity Fact In Fact Selfish Very

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I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Always Another Disguise Form Plays

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For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: About Action Africa Allow Always Apartheid Believe Correct Desperate Did Different Fact Felt Form Issue Life Most Myself Refused Significant Situation South South Africa Uneasy Very Whether Write Writing

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I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Block Experience Had Hell Life Living Me My Life Terror Writer

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For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Africa Bottom Created Does Draw Equal Hear Man Men Miracle Out Phrase Rock Soul South South Africa Starting Us West Yawn You

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The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Certain Come Complex Genesis Kind Motives Mystery Play Things Writing

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There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Action Close Come Faith Form Life Losing Theater Times Years

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Playwright

Born: June 11th, 1932

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