Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent?…

— Suze Orman

My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it.…

— Adam Driver

“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate…

— Alan Wilson Watts

I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think…

— Tom Stoppard

Imagine Eminem writing a play with complex raps and syllables, and melodies flowing in and out. That's what it was like for me listening…

— Ryan Montgomery

I think I prefer writing books because the work of art begins and ends with you - it's easier to know if you're doing…

— Sheila Heti

When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's a difference,…

— Edward Albee

Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the…

— Tom Stoppard

In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough, you'll probably…

— David Mamet

I had no agenda in writing this play except expressing myself. . . . It later occurred to me that I was not only…

— Mart Crowley

I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic…

— Lynn Nottage

GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were of a…

— Peter Hedges

It seemed like the right time. You reach a point when you say to yourself, ‘Do I want to keep doing this?’ There are…

— Joy Behar

“Writing stories and plays is an extension of little-kid doll house play and lego play. We all are kids, just older now, and we…

— Jeanne Voelker