Playwright Quotes

155 quotes by 129 authors

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts. — Janet Malcolm
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square. — Alex Cox
I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character. — Lusia Strus
I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which Iâ€™m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I donâ€™t think I can support myself… — Tony Kushner
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank… — Brenda Ueland
I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd… — Liev Schreiber
When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor.… — David Suchet
I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists. — David Suchet
Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would… — Mark Helprin
I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and… — Lusia Strus
I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning acceptance. . .… — David Henry Hwang
The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time. — David Hare
At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I… — Lanford Wilson
What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for many… — Caridad Svich
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
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
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
I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new plays a year,… — Gregory A. Boyd
Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work. For… — Tony Kushner
. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its… — David Henry Hwang

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