Bits Quote by Colette Freedman

When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied…

— Wallace Shawn

I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've…

— Lynne Reid Banks

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they…

— Irwin Shaw

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

— Pam Gems

When I was at UCLA, a professor there encouraged me to write, and so I looked into specializing in creative writing in the English…

— Randall Park

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when…

— Jake M. Johnson

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a…

— Lauren Ashley Carter

I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and…

— Lennie James

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't…

— Sam Shepard

I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a…

— David Ives

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

I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down…

— Dan Castellaneta