Writing Plays Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve… — Yukio Mishima
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford. — Taiye Selasi
As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But… — Harold Pinter
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to… — August Wilson
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you say,… — Wendy Wasserstein
I do choose to write for a living - in addition to writing plays. I no longer write sitcoms, and I no longer feel shame. — Lisa Loomer
So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I… — Patrick Macnee
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
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. — Annie Baker
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to… — Annie Baker
I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at. — David Hare
I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays. — Lena Dunham
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for. — Wole Soyinka
When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was writing plays for… — Eamonn Walker
I always wanted to be an independent maverick, writing plays and putting them on myself. — Christian McKay
Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations. — Adam Driver
So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale. — Richard Foreman
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

Who Wrote These Writing Plays Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 18 Writing Plays Quotes as follows: