Playwright Quotes · Page 11

Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see…

— Tony Kushner

I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that…

— Jean Kerr

I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals.…

— Sefi Atta

I learned from the Macarturos. I had never been at a table with a labor organizer and a playwright and a performance…

— Sandra Cisneros

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did…

— Ben Affleck

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it…

— Orson Scott Card

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our…

— Janet Malcolm

If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical,…

— Arnold Aronson

Theater is the foundation of how I live my life, actually. My father was a playwright, so I was around it all…

— Laura Linney

I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as…

— Anonymous

There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger…

— Edward Albee

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

— George Jean Nathan

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New…

— Christopher Denham

Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent,…

— Twyla Tharp

Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you…

— Epictetus

if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?

— Gertrude Atherton

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

— Phyllis McGinley

Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get…

— Tracy Letts

“Sometimes the world feels so heavy that I crave the limelight - where the curtain rises, and the darkness becomes art.”

— Laura Chouette

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

— Atom Egoyan

Neil [Simon] was considered our greatest [living playwright] at the time [of their marriage]. Maybe he still is; I don't know. But…

— Marsha Mason

The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She…

— Marsha Norman

I often envy a filmmaker or a playwright or an author where people are like, "Yeah, I sat down every night and…

— Dan Deacon

It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

— Laura Wade

I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think…

— Judy Woodruff