Crafts Quotes

929 Crafts quotes by 710 unique authors

Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to… — Terrence McNally
All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got involved in analyzing… — John Patrick Shanley
The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are. — Tina Howe
. . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing… — David Hare
All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart. — David Ives
I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later.… — Wallace Shawn
[I was] particularly eager to give voice to the women of my mother's place and generation, who grew up in turn-of-the-century, privileged New England households,… — Tina Howe
I do think the challenge, in a way for me, is to write a narrative film and when you finish watching it you feel like… — Shane Black
I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away… — Larry Gelbart
I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just… — Chuck Close
I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends,… — Neil LaBute
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . .… — Alan Ayckbourn
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 that… — Terrence McNally
As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play. — David Hare
I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing and imaginable they… — Takeshi Kitano
If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people. — Martin McDonagh
[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN] action is nonaction… — Martin Scorsese
The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the deadline.… — David E. Kelley
. . . the cruel part is that, to let the play live, you have to surrender control and let your characters go. You have… — Tina Howe
Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then… — David Henry Hwang
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked… — David Wright
I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write another draft to… — Richard Greenberg
When do I say No? I say No when I feel that the intention of the play, or the spirit, or tone - or text!… — Lisa Loomer
I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no longer feel shame. — Lisa Loomer
People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's very… — Suzan-Lori Parks

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