Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The first theater subscription I ever bought was the August Wilson season at Signature. I remember thinking a whole season to one… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow… — Norman Corwin Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative,… — David Ives Copy Share Image
I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
