I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think sometimes we do miss what a fabulous playwright Brian Friel is. — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did. — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental. — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I'm probably most proud of the plays that I've written just because as the playwright, you know, you're God. You get to… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer ---- Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the… — Taylor Negron Copy Share Image
What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre,… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
One of the good thing about theater in the states, is that the playwright we do have a say, especially in the… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a playwright in college. That's what I was interested in and that's what I was moving toward, and… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
There's always the danger that there are so damn many things that a playwright can examine in this society of ours -… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples.… — Daniel J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright,… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
On stage, I have felt most fulfilled as a playwright, for everything I create gets to grow and evolve with collaboration from… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
