Playwright Quotes · Page 12

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

— John Guare

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

— Tom Stoppard

I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.

— George M. Cohan

What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis…

— Tawfiq al-Hakim

Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only…

— Tom Stoppard

There was a play that was written by who I think is America's greatest playwright, and he wrote a small part in…

— Scott Glenn

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

— Lusia Strus

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an…

— John Lahr

In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems…

— Robert Penn Warren

I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

— John Guare

An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as…

— David Wright

I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid,…

— Annie Baker

What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison…

— Caridad Svich

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

— D. H. Lawrence

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost…

— James Thurber

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

— Katori Hall

By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong…

— Edward Albee

I am a playwright. I show What I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That…

— Bertolt Brecht

You know, I used to not understand fashion, a lot of it, but I completely understood being a playwright or a screenwriter…

— Reese Witherspoon

Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer ---- Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the…

— Taylor Negron

I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing…

— Kenneth Lonergan

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

— Danny Glover

Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

— Sarah Jessica Parker

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

— Francis Ford Coppola