I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I love the students - they are remarkable, inspiring people. I would miss teaching if I stopped doing it. The kind of… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. — C. S. Lewis 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
The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to… — Robert Anderson 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
You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work. — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on… — Lusia Strus 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
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who… — Alfred Lunt Copy Share Image
When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to… — Anne Sebba Copy Share Image
My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet. — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
Little Christian Bale. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and I re-watched it not too long ago, and… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
