The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.” — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
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
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did. — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Any actor worth his salt is looking for truth, the core of truth of the particular situation he is portraying, of that… — Jason Robards Copy Share Image
Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
It's a lucky circumstance when you get to usher in new work, because you are able to ask the playwright and the… — Gideon Glick Copy Share Image
Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school.… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
One of the good thing about theater in the states, is that the playwright we do have a say, especially in the… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a narrative artist. I don't think of myself as a novelist or screenwriter or playwright. All of… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre,… — David Henry Hwang 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
A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I'm a playwright by trade, and in theater, writers have complete control over everything. Nobody can change a word without your permission.… — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
