I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I had stopped writing plays set in villages because they were not relevant to my experiences and I knew my English classmates… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays. — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered story with queer,… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
I don't know if I ever would have developed into a good actor, but that got completely scotched when I lost my… — David Small Copy Share Image
When you're writing plays, it's possible to believe you don't have any real world skill. When you're adapting, it is really all… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
In defense of games, I want to point out that the writing in plays, including everything by August Strindberg and The Lion… — Erik Wolpaw Copy Share Image
I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college,… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was… — Eamonn Walker Copy Share Image
I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“My first novel was only a try-out,’ said David carelessly. The sort of thing every undergraduate has to write, but now I… — Angela Thirkell 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
I honestly think if I had made a ton of money as an actor, I wouldn't have done anything else. (Hah!) Then… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of… — Jack Thorne Copy Share Image
I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no… — Lisa Loomer Copy Share Image
I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central. — Richard Greenberg 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 wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's… — Steven Michael Quezada Copy Share Image
Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I've been writing plays since the third grade. The biggest difference now is that professionals act in them rather than eight year… — Colette Freedman Copy Share Image
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