Playwright Quotes

155 quotes by 129 authors

I said it before and Iâ€™ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: thereâ€™s only movies. Music is still okay,… — Stephen Fry
But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate… — Helen Hayes
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer,… — Marsha Norman
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I… — James Ellroy
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even… — C.S. Lewis
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief… — Upton Sinclair
I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous,… — W G Sebald
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds,… — Wendy Wasserstein
For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged… — Jackson Katz
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to acting school at… — Tracie Thoms
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on… — Tracy Letts
The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually… — Beau Willimon
My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet. — Maximilian Schell
A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the… — David Mamet
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now… — Ellen McLaughlin
I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen… — John Logan
I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly. — Richard Greenberg
The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright… — F. Sionil Jose
Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there. — Tom Stoppard

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