Playwright Quotes

155 quotes by 129 authors

I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot,… — Suzanne Collins
I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it. — John Patrick Shanley
I am an internationally produced playwright. — Israel Horovitz
I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of… — Ben Affleck
I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write. — Libba Bray
The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion… — Robert Anderson
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate… — George Pierce Baker
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright. — Peter Shaffer
Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled. — William Goldman
One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer. — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright. — Marsha Norman
I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was… — Jason Katims
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of… — Alan Bennett
This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp… — Richard Eder
My mom was a very productive playwright. I remember a poster for one of her shows. It was at Columbus Circle and all the subway… — Jon Cryer

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