Playwright Quotes

155 quotes by 129 authors

Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all American Playwrights has… — Peter Stone
My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite… — Wallace Shawn
You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think… — Tony Kushner
About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop… — Gioconda Belli
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 a… — Orson Scott Card
Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back… — Anton Chekhov
The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents. — John Lahr
A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In… — John Lahr
I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into… — Don DeLillo
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of… — Gavin Newsom
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with… — Peter Shaffer
It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright. — Laura Wade
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 in… — Ted Lange
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and… — Gabrielle Zevin
All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz
You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by. — Sam Shepard
If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The… — Brad Dourif
What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing… — Tennessee Williams
It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright. — Beth Henley
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on… — David Ives

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