YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS.

To ask the hard question is simple.

— W. H. Auden

I have to look at our staff and ask the hard question - Would I hire them again?

— Jeff Henderson

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

— Alan Hirsch

When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the…

— Tony Kushner

“[In the theatre] Thanks.' He paused on the stairs. "And good- "Don't say it!" yelled Helena. "No whistling, no well-wishing." "I thought you weren't…

— Christopher Fowler

“Once one seizes happiness, one should hang onto it like an octopus.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for…

— Caridad Svich

I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity…

— August Wilson

“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that…

— Liev Schreiber

One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a…

— Simon McBurney

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

— Edward Albee

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

— Ellen McLaughlin

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

— Tony Kushner

There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the…

— Tony Kushner