Argument Quote by Alan Bennett

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

— Tom Stoppard

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

— Tom Stoppard

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and…

— Tom Stoppard

I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience.

— Joe Mantello

a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide…

— Glenda Jackson

If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may…

— Eugene Ionesco

If a man writes a brilliant enough play in praise of something that is universally loathed, the play, if it is good and well…

— Edward Albee

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

— David Hare

Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it…

— Lajos Egri

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a…

— Anton Chekhov

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say…

— Edward Albee

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg