I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.” — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations. — Tracy Letts 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
My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I think in theater the playwright is king. Those words are unchangeable. They are the reason that everything else flows from. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I'm on Twitter every single week. It's sort of like being a playwright standing in the back of the theater. — Peter Paige Copy Share Image
“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of… — John Logan Copy Share Image
I do come from a theater background, where the playwright is optimal and king and you have to serve the playwright. So… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome Fellowship, and found myself sitting in… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless… — Laura Wade 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
“If you meant to invite me, and let's proceed from that assumption, then you wanted a playwright, and I have to say… — in a commencement speech to Vassar College Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after… — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
There's always the danger that there are so damn many things that a playwright can examine in this society of ours -… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and… — Vincent H. O'Neil Copy Share Image
The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time. — David Hare Copy Share Image
I think sometimes we do miss what a fabulous playwright Brian Friel is. — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
