Empathy Quote by Donald Margulies

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

— Arthur Miller

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

— Tony Kushner

You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And…

— Catherine Brady

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

— T. S. Eliot

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the…

— Tom Stoppard

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to…

— John Patrick Shanley

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

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't…

— Sam Shepard

Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of…

— Rebecca Miller

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

— David Hare

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

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

— Jeff Daniels