Believe Quote by David Hare

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

— Edward Albee

A play, after all, is a mystery. There's no narration. And as soon as there's no narration, it's open to interpretation. It must be…

— Mike Nichols

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

— Holland Taylor

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

— W. Somerset Maugham

anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a…

— Wendy Wasserstein

When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions -- that you have something to say, that you know how to say…

— Edward Albee

You can make anything into a play for the simple reason that the human mind is one of the best writers in the business.…

— Morgan Freeman

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos…

— George Bernard Shaw

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

— Katie Salen

Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.

— Donald Margulies

There comes a point in any project where you have to say - whether you like or understand the character, or the whole play…

— Elizabeth Marvel

Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour…

— Nell Leyshon