You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time. — David Hare Copy Share Image
Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed. — John Guare Copy Share Image
William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me? — Mae West Copy Share Image
But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying… — Jules Fisher Copy Share Image
Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
“The scholar explained, very neatly, that a play might well have something interesting about it, but no literary value. He demonstrated, without… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
In the beginning this was just an idea. Then it was a short story. Then it was a script. Each step was… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
