I never wanted to be a playwright.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

— Francis Ford Coppola

“If you meant to invite me, and let's proceed from that assumption, then you wanted a playwright, and I have to say what a…

— in a commencement speech to Vassar College Tony Kushner

Maybe this is a way of gaslighting myself, but I think of it this way: In certain circles, my grandpa was considered to be…

— Zoe Kazan

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

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

— August Strindberg

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

I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or…

— Adam Rapp

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short…

— Mindy Kaling

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 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

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

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