I seem to belong to a boom moment of playwrights, and I'm…

Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created…

— Israel Horovitz

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

— David Suchet

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also…

— Tony Kushner

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

'American Playhouse' is very supportive of writers. That's really why writers like to write for 'American Playhouse' for very little money. They care about…

— Terrence McNally

“We are playwrights in that we spontaneously compose and direct dialogue, acting out various roles of a nurturer, an authority, or a character from…

— Jeffrey A. Kottler

All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.

— Yasmina Reza

I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of…

— Laura Wade

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger…

— Garry Hynes

Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August…

— Daniel J. Sullivan

I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.

— Diane Paulus

My generation of playwrights have grown up writing for studio theatres, and so the task of writing for more than ten or so actors…

— Lee Hall

I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine…

— Edward Albee

Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.

— George C. Wolfe