“As a youth I enjoyed — indeed, like most of my contemporaries, revered — the agitprop plays of Brecht, and his indictments… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to… — David Ives Copy Share Image
It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an… — George Ade Copy Share Image
When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told… — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged… — Valorie Curry Copy Share Image
One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter… — John Guare Copy Share Image
There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and… — Tony Kushner 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
When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If… — Sam Shepard 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
“Don't make a wall of glass between your play and the people watching. Don't forget they were once children, who enjoyed being… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting. — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
Watching first nights, though I've seen quite a few by now, is never any better. It's a nerve-racking experience. It's not a… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“How many plays have been written in France?' Candide asked the abbe. 'Five or six thousand.' 'That's a lot,' said Candide. 'How… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
