Important Quote by Andy Summers

What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.

— Sam Shepard

I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and…

— Jeffrey DeMunn

When you don't play, you realise how important it is and it's extremely important for me.

— Jan Vertonghen

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

— Anna Deavere Smith

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

— Edward Albee

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't…

— Sam Shepard

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it…

— Tennessee Williams

I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to simply assuming…

— Tony Kushner

Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour…

— Nell Leyshon

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

A sense of play is important when I'm writing, and so messing around with, say, a magic routine can feel like play, at least…

— Laura van den Berg

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee