Playwright Quotes · Page 4

I am not a playwright. A playwright would take "Antigone" and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape…

— Seamus Heaney

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

— John Lahr

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

— Edward Albee

Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.

— Mina Loy

A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

— Sam Shepard

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose…

— Terence Rattigan

I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights.

— Eva Mendes

If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at…

— Mark Twain

Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything…

— Alistair Beaton

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like…

— Tom Hardy

Theatre is an actor's medium though behind the stage there is a playwright, director and perhaps in some, a music composer too,…

— Himani Shivpuri

[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology,…

— Baron Vaughn

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the…

— Russell Baker

If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act…

— Brenda Ueland

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school.…

— Mindy Kaling

It's a lucky circumstance when you get to usher in new work, because you are able to ask the playwright and the…

— Gideon Glick

At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after…

— Lanford Wilson

Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist…

— Sarah Jones

I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is…

— Ellen McLaughlin

“The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and…

— Vincent H. O'Neil

There have always been dreamers. Men and women who catch a glimpse of something beyond themselves who dare to reach for goals…

— Tommy Tenney

The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in…

— Goswami Kriyananda

Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used…

— William Monahan

I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new…

— Gregory A. Boyd

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

— Marsha Norman

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

— Edward Albee

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

— Stella Adler

The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.

— Edward Albee

The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative... She's a playwright and she's a musician.

— Jazmine Sullivan

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

— John Lithgow

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream…

— Pearl Cleage

if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

— Gertrude Atherton

The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in…

— George Bernard Shaw

Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists,…

— Manning Marable

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

— Tracy Letts

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do…

— Edward Albee

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

— Edward Albee

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

— Danny Glover

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

— August Strindberg

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between…

— David Suchet