Attempting Quote by Annie Baker

I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid, my fantasy…

— Annie Baker

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and…

— John Logan

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be…

— Orson Scott Card

I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I…

— Ellen McLaughlin

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

— Francis Ford Coppola

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I…

— Tom Stoppard

I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do…

— Sam Shepard

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

— Beth Henley

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought,…

— Francis Ford Coppola

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give…

— Ted Lange

It's a lucky life to be a playwright.

— John Guare

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

— Libba Bray