About Quote by David Henry Hwang

I had stopped writing plays set in villages because they were not relevant to my experiences and I knew my English classmates wouldn't appreciate…

— Sefi Atta

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I…

— Jesse Eisenberg

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

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasnt good enough to play with the big…

— Kevin Spacey

I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I…

— Wallace Shawn

In the beginning, it was quite challenging because I had zero acting experience, and delivering dialogues was the most difficult thing for me to…

— Atif Aslam

I took a drama class in elementary school, and I just remember having so much fun with it. From there, I just studied, got…

— Sinqua Walls

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things…

— Ajay Naidu

There are two strains, I think, in American playwriting, of importance. One is traditional narrative realism, which is definitely my strain, and then the…

— Tony Kushner

When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with…

— Luc Sante

I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I…

— Ellen McLaughlin

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