“Cats do not go to heaven. Women cannot write the plays of Shakespeare.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing. — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience. — Jayne Meadows Copy Share Image
I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing. — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters. — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians. — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play. — David Hare Copy Share Image
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre.… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so… — Wole Soyinka 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
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
I found it was my good fortune to somehow be able to work in these forms that I loved when I was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
When I was younger I was much more polemical and didactic, much less trusting. Inherently my own vision of the world would… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
For me, the ages between 9 and 12 were great because it was before you wore any masks, and you had some… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“All you had to say was, 'I am a writer,' and you became one. You didn't even have to write anything. You… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
“Act I, Scene 1 GARRY: …My worst defect is that I am apt to worry too much about what people think of… — Noël Coward Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good… — David Hare Copy Share Image
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn't write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright. — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
And it is a very beautiful idea, and possibly true, that a common man from Stratford with a common education was able… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I knew exactly what I wanted to do since I could remember. As a kid, if my friends came round after school… — Hannah John-Kamen Copy Share Image
I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
