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Writing is the thing that props me up.

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Horton Foote
Age: 92 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 14
Died: 2009
Died: March 4
Actor
Film Producer
Playwright
Screenwriter
Wharton County
Texas
Albert Horton Foote
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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.
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If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.
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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.
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I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.
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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.
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