Audience Quote by David Mamet

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

— David Mamet

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it…

— Tennessee Williams

I don't believe really good plays - interesting plays, complicated plays - can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience.

— Joe Mantello

My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the…

— George Burns

Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because…

— Sheila Heti

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out…

— Tom Stoppard

Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a…

— David Mamet

The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time.…

— Linda Lavin

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

When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play. I could write dialogue, but I just sort of failed beyond…

— Sam Shepard

Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The plot could…

— Frank Wildhorn