Freedom Quote by Abi Morgan

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

— Pierre Beaumarchais

Something happened to me when I wrote female characters in my early plays; it was a real liberation.

— Peter Hedges

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

— Nathalie Sarraute

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

— Michael Graves

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of…

— Andrea Dworkin

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to…

— Amy Tan

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.

— David Duchovny

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

— Tony Kushner

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if…

— Joyce Maynard

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

We need to encourage more women to write roles for other women. The great substantive roles aren't being written for women and aren't being…

— Trudie Styler