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
If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke. — Sacha Guitry Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know… — Endesha Ida Mae Holland Copy Share Image
I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
As a composer I could never find use for over 4 or 5 notes in any musical number, and as a playwright… — George M. Cohan Copy Share Image
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose… — Terence Rattigan Copy Share Image
A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage. — Edward Albee 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
When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me? — Mae West Copy Share Image
A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
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