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Playwright Quotes by Peter Shaffer
- 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…
- 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.
More Playwright Quotes
- A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the… — Russell Baker
- Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw of a… — Lewis Black
- I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and… — Orlando Bloom
- Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you… — Ursula K. Le Guin
- Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit… — Amy Holden Jones
- The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow… — Norman Corwin
- When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice… — David Suchet
- In terms of collaboration, working on a new piece is always thrilling, as I'm sure most people would say, because the playwright… — Gideon Glick