Playwright Quotes · Page 2

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

— Walter Dean Myers

The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

— Oliver Stone

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

— Doris Lessing

I think sometimes we do miss what a fabulous playwright Brian Friel is.

— Adrian Dunbar

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

— Aaron Sorkin

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.

— David Henry Hwang

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

— Edward Albee

Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That's where his genius comes in as a playwright.

— Adrian Dunbar

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty…

— Tracy Letts

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

— Katori Hall

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when…

— Don DeLillo

The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.

— Brian K. Vaughan

The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been…

— Sarah Ruhl

I'm probably most proud of the plays that I've written just because as the playwright, you know, you're God. You get to…

— John Buffalo Mailer

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just…

— Wendy Wasserstein

I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of…

— Ellen McLaughlin

I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces…

— George R. R. Martin

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope…

— Creed Bratton

What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to…

— Tennessee Williams

Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything…

— Alistair Beaton

One of the good thing about theater in the states, is that the playwright we do have a say, especially in the…

— Nilo Cruz

. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre,…

— David Henry Hwang

There's always the danger that there are so damn many things that a playwright can examine in this society of ours -…

— Edward Albee

Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples.…

— Daniel J. Sullivan

I wanted to be a playwright in college. That's what I was interested in and that's what I was moving toward, and…

— Greta Gerwig

There have always been dreamers. Men and women who catch a glimpse of something beyond themselves who dare to reach for goals…

— Tommy Tenney

The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in…

— Goswami Kriyananda

Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist…

— Sarah Jones

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand

— Ethel Merman

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

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

On stage, I have felt most fulfilled as a playwright, for everything I create gets to grow and evolve with collaboration from…

— Colman Domingo

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.

— Edward Albee

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

— Arthur Miller

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright,…

— Peter Shaffer

Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry…

— Maya Angelou

I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights.

— Eva Mendes

If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at…

— Mark Twain