Crafts Quote by David Hare Download Open image “The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.” — David Hare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crafts Important Playwright Speak Time
To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give… — Ted Lange Copy Share Image
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
I love what I do, and I love the audience, and I love the fact that I get to do it, and I love,… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work. — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book. — John Guare Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is… — David Hare Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any. — David Hare Copy Share Image
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. — David Hare Copy Share Image
You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV. — David Hare Copy Share Image
Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this… — David Hare Copy Share Image
I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having. — David Hare Copy Share Image
When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is… — David Hare Copy Share Image
My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is… — David Hare Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image