Write Play Quotes

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play

— Edward Bond

“You write. You play. Tell me.”

— Jaci Burton

I would like to write a play.

— Tim Rice

Now I can't wait to write my next play.

— Scott Caan

I never write a play with an eye to film.

— Neil Simon

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

— John Steinbeck

I get passionate about certain subjects, and then I'll write a whole play around it.

— Scott Haze

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

— David Hare

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.

— Tom Stoppard

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

— Neil Gaiman

“You had to write it, and he had to play it, and I'm just so grateful I got to see it.”

— Jess Walter

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

— Grace Cavalieri

I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point.

— Laurence Fox

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

— Israel Horovitz

When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and…

— Sam Shepard

I am not somebody who meets a man or a woman somewhere and feels like that is an incredible character that I…

— Tom Stoppard

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next…

— Tom Stoppard

If I'm feeling something, I know if it's a song, or if it's a little story that I'm going to write, or…

— Michael Marisi Ornstein

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get…

— Jules Feiffer

I wonder if Shakespeare ever had to write a play in 10 days while suffering from jet-lag? Probably. It would explain why…

— Richard Herring

The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and…

— Aaron Sorkin

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an…

— Robert E. Sherwood

Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can…

— Edward Albee

There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that,…

— Caryl Churchill

“You didn't just write the play, Bertie," Peaseblossom said suddenly. "You ordered the Players about, shouted, and threw an artistic hissy fit.…

— Lisa Mantchev

I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and…

— Alan Rickman

My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started…

— Tom Stoppard

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk…

— Didi Conn

In the two or three or four months that it takes me to write a play, I find that the reality of…

— Edward Albee

The next time I write a play - in order to get audience trust for a particular sort of tragic line, I'll…

— Colm Toibin

My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's…

— Paula Vogel

“only had to write the play that I was already thinking of. Plays are much easier to write than books, because you…

— Agatha Christie

“I think that every one whom you may ask how to write a play will reply, if he really can write one,…

— Alexandre Dumas Fils

GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were…

— Peter Hedges

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

— Edward Albee

If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.

— Tom Stoppard

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

— Edward Albee

No one told us what to wear, what to write, what to play. When they tried to, we shot 'em down easily.

— Charlotte Caffey

Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again.

— Lynn Nottage

I am trying to write a play that is big and I feel represents me - that's my big ambition.

— Jack Thorne