My mother was working on her college degree throughout my…

My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a…

— Valorie Curry

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

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

— Ellen McLaughlin

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

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.

— John Guare

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

Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.

— Paula Vogel

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

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

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied…

— Wallace Shawn

I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily,…

— George Ade

It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play to a…

— Noel Coward

I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a…

— David Ives

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.

— Donald Margulies

“As a youth I enjoyed — indeed, like most of my contemporaries, revered — the agitprop plays of Brecht, and his indictments of Capitalism.…

— David Mamet