I love writing dialogue, and I think a l... by Jessica Hagedorn | We Heart Quotes

Love Author poet Writing playwright

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Other quotes by Jessica Hagedorn

Drama Movies Years

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Society

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Imagination

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Now Being

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Being World Life

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Feeling Being

I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.

- Jessica Hagedorn

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