Empathy Quote by Donald Margulies

I've come to view screenwriting assignments as playwriting grants, because they provide a considerable financial cushion. However, they can also be extremely time-consuming. Film…

— Donald Margulies

When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's a difference,…

— Edward Albee

I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because…

— Ellen McLaughlin

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

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.

— John Guare

In playwriting, you've got to be able to write dialogue. And if you write enough of it and let it flow enough, you'll probably…

— David Mamet

Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.

— Paula Vogel

One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a…

— Simon McBurney

My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a…

— Valorie Curry

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that…

— Liev Schreiber

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 got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily,…

— George Ade