Israel Horovitz

“The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.”

“Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.”

“I was not to the manor born.”

“I don't direct the plays of others.”

“Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.”

“I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.”

“I've always been a fighter - it's always been a part of my personality.”

“My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.”

“I am an internationally produced playwright.”

“My dream is to have a small company in France.”

“L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.”

“France is very welcoming to foreign writers.”

“I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.”

“I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.”

“I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.”

“You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.”

“It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.”

“I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.”

“I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.”

“I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.”