I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.” — Vincent H. O'Neil 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
I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form. — August Strindberg 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
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 Copy Share Image
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright,… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
On stage, I have felt most fulfilled as a playwright, for everything I create gets to grow and evolve with collaboration from… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
One of the things that's different about London and the English market is that theater and film and television are all based… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
In terms of collaboration, working on a new piece is always thrilling, as I'm sure most people would say, because the playwright… — Gideon Glick Copy Share Image
Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four'… — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Copy Share Image
Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land,… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I remember I once had a meeting with Sydney Pollack and the playwright Tom Stoppard, and they thought I was English. I… — Stephen Dorff 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
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
There have always been dreamers. Men and women who catch a glimpse of something beyond themselves who dare to reach for goals… — Tommy Tenney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I am not a playwright. A playwright would take "Antigone" and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any… — Tom Stoppard 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
Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself. — Mina Loy 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
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
The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents. — John Lahr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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