Attention Quote by Edward Albee

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

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

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.

— Aaron Sorkin

“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. … I have 10 or so, and that’s…

— Gore Vidal

I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone to something…

— Jennifer Tipton

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

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

— Edward Albee

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

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also…

— Tony Kushner

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

— Beth Henley

Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all American Playwrights…

— Peter Stone

I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do…

— Sam Shepard