Writing a play to get to Broadway and have a national tour is a sure way to write a terrible, terrible play. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play. — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch… — Nell Leyshon Copy Share Image
I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
I think I prefer writing books because the work of art begins and ends with you - it's easier to know if… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“Writing stories and plays is an extension of little-kid doll house play and lego play. We all are kids, just older now,… — Jeanne Voelker Copy Share Image
You reach a point when you say to yourself, 'Do I want to keep doing this?' There are other things on my… — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'm still trying to write. I wrote a play a few years ago, so I'm trying to start writing again. The play… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I think theatre is a democratic act and I think writing a play is not a democratic act. I think we should… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
The whole thing about writing a play is that it's all about controlling the flow of information traveling from the stage to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“The task, and the joy, of writing for me is that I can play with the metaphors that God has placed in… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I had no agenda in writing this play except expressing myself. . . . It later occurred to me that I was… — Mart Crowley Copy Share Image
In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I find it's very confusing when one critic tells you one thing and one tells you something completely different. Unless all the… — Nilo Cruz 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
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
When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
It seemed like the right time. You reach a point when you say to yourself, ‘Do I want to keep doing this?’… — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write… — David Ives Copy Share Image
“I have no recollection of writing the play of Peter Pan, now being published for the first time so long after he… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Imagine Eminem writing a play with complex raps and syllables, and melodies flowing in and out. That's what it was like for… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In the process of writing '13,' friends were asking if I was OK because I was saying things about religion or about… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
I can work a lot faster when I'm writing a screenplay than when I'm writing a play because, if I'm having a… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
![“Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.” quote by Tom Stoppard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/271/tom-stoppard-437_ashtrays_writing-a-play-is-like-smashing-that-gla_733373.png)
![“I'm still trying to write. I wrote a play a few years ago, so I'm trying to start writing again. The play was called The Commons Of Pensacola. It was at MTC [Manhattan Theatre Club] with Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner. It was kind of like a riff on Ruth Madoff.” quote by Amanda Peet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b2/amanda-peet-12108_clubs_i-m-still-trying-to-write-i-wrote-a-play_2991270.jpg)
![“I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.” quote by Edward Albee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/edward-albee-1684_littles_i-was-twenty-nine-years-old-and-i-wasn-t_1642881.png)
![“There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's…” quote by Caryl Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ab/caryl-churchill-24054_crafts_there-s-nothing-personal-in-it-the-skrik_1917366.jpg)