I know all about improvisation and the free-form that…

Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another…

— Tracy Letts

I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare

There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about…

— August Wilson

The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept…

— Laurence Sterne

A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the…

— Edward Albee

When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but…

— Matt Besser

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

There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with…

— Elliott Colla

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and…

— Richard Greenberg

I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together,…

— Scott Raab

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand

An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am…

— Alan Bennett

I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered…

— William Monahan

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

— August Strindberg