Any Quote by Adam Rapp

The hardest thing is to write a play, because you have to hold their attention for two hours, and if you let them go…

— John Mortimer

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of…

— Ben Brantley

Our job is to unleash the play. It's not just about your character or interaction with the other characters. There's an energy in all…

— Glenda Jackson

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do…

— Terrence McNally

With my work, I always want to people to just forget about anything stressful going on in their lives and be fully entertained. Laughter…

— Del Shores

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions,

— Anton Chekhov

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of…

— David Mamet

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a…

— Wendy Wasserstein

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play…

— Wallace Shawn

People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'

— Marian Seldes